Comment on Is it possible to tell Jellyfin to search also the original name?

• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s also just two words. Spanish worlds tend to be longer than english ones.

  “Muertos” is a direct translation of “dead”.

  “Evil” would be “maligno”, but “terroríficamente” was used "which would be like “terrifying”.

  Anyway spanish translations used to change a lot the titles of the movies back in the day, most famously “die hard” is “la jungla de cristal” here.

  I’ve heard that they did this because direct translations or english titles didn’t work as well here, and a change in the title made more people want to watch the movie.

  Nowadays this happens way less, most titles are direct translations or use their english title directly.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Cool thanks for the insight, is this the case for Spain or are you in a different Spanish speaking country/territory?

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m from Spain.

      But I know that in Latin America they also used to change the title of some media sometimes. Funny enough they used different titles than in Spain.

      For instance, the movie “White Chicks” in Spain is “Dos rubias de pelo en pecho” and in Latin America is “¿Y donde están las rubias?”.

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      • Willdrick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Tell me about it. I’ve got movies with the Spanish title, and the LatAm cover art with yet another title. Ended up switching Jellyfin to English just to be able to find my movies

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