Find Nemo

[pne]

Just got back from watching Find Nemo (in German) with Jeva, the daughter of friends of ours.

I laughed; I cried; I was scared; I was entertained. What more can you want?

So yeah, I rather liked it, on the whole. One thing I liked in particular was the pseudo-Hawaiian name of "Mount Wannahockaloogie", which was undoubtedly lost on most of the German audience; I thought it extremely funny.

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[nik-w.livejournal.com]

My nephew has been to see it twice or three times... he thinks it's great. He has toys of it and a computer game (which is nigh on impossible for adults, so how kids are supposed to do it, I don't know)!

Don't like being pedantic, but I figured you might want to know that over here it's called "Finding Nemo" - I dunno why it'd translate different. I suppose the two titles mean more or less the same, though "find" is more an instruction, whereas "finding" is something you're doing. I dunno, I just thought you might like to know for a) correctness, and b) analysing the difference in the languages! :)

Finding Nemo

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks for the correction.

It's "Findet Nemo" in German ("Find Nemo!", a command addressed to multiple people), and I back-translated wrongly since the German name is obviously not a literal translation of the English title. But it's better than a literal translation ("Nemo finden" or something like that) would be. "Auf der Suche nach Nemo" might be better as a "meaning translation" -- "On the search for Nemo" or something like that.

Re: Finding Nemo

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

"Find Nemo!" is probably a more sensible title, as it's a complete sentence if nothing else. You know what these crazy American film producer types are like, though!;)