> As far as UFO episodes are concerned - apart from
> some lines such as "these
> clouds give as much cover as a g-string on a belly
> dancer" whose literal
> translation in Italian wouldn't make sense - the
> Italian dubbers did a good
> job (as they usually do, I'm told).
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> If you could speak Italian and could compare the
> original UFO episodes
> dialogues with the Italian dubbing of the five
> Italian UFO film-compilations
> (see www.isoshado.org , Historical Researches, From
> TV to Cinema)
> you would find it funny sometimes.
> The Italian dubbing of UFO episode A Cat With Ten
> Lives, for example, does
> not literally translates "sitting duck" while one of
> the movie-compilations
> does ("anatra seduta") and this is nonsense in
> Italian.
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> teresa
> ISOSHADO
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > I can't make any judgement about bad Italian
> sci-fi, I'm afraid. :) But I
> > do agree that 'U.F.O.' was 'never at a loss for
> plots and snappy lines'. I
> > also can't offer any comment about the quality of
> the translation into
> > Italian. :)
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