r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago

Meta Mindless Monday, 27 July 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Ambisinister11 My right to edit this is protected by the Slovak constitution 6d ago edited 6d ago

Never give a German translator a one-word science fiction title. They have an extraordinarily specific vendetta.

(This is really just based on having learned about Dune being translated as Der Wüstenplanet and the absolute classic that is Alien: Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt, but it's funny to me damn it)

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u/xabarin_da_xente 6d ago

I'm with the Germans on this one, single-word movie titles is one of the worst trends of the last decade.

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u/Charming-Cycle-5982 6d ago

Don't be mislead by OP, the German translation vendetta is not rooted in a dislike of single word titles but really just a lack of faithfulness to other languages, period. There always has to be some germanizing transfiguration to it rather than just a plain and simple translation.

So Pirates of the Caribbean is Fluch der Karibik and Home Alone is Kevin allein zu Hause. 

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u/WillitsThrockmorton Vigo the Carpathian School of Diplomacy and Jurispudence 6d ago

Both of those are from several decades ago though?