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(Mis)representation of language in Hollywood movies (beehaw.org)

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Through the years I've noticed that quite a few Hollywood films play fast and loose with any other language than English.

I was watching Oppenheimer yesterday and the titular character was supposed to be speaking Dutch fluently, but the actual lines spoken were mostly jibberish, and more like German than Dutch. As a native speaker, I found this quite jarring and sloppy. Though I can imagine that to non-native speakers this would probably fly under the radar.

This got me thinking if there were more examples of shoddy translation, weird pronunciation, mishandling of language or dialect that you as a native speakers have noticed when watching movies?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

For all we know, Oppenheimer spoke the same ‘fluent’ Dutch in real life too. People would only see him talk fluent Dutch because they didn’t speak Dutch.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does anyone actually speak fluent Dutch? Is it even possible to speak fluent Dutch? We may never know

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Joost mag het weten.

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