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What are some of the worst movie title changes in your language? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

That's so funny. I just though Läderlappen just sounds like german for "leather rag" and google does in fact translates it to "The Leather patch".

I wonder what their thought process was in coming up with leather patch for batman.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I am not sure, but to tie this all back together, the whole conversation came up when we were talking about how, when you kill a bat in Valheim it drops leather.

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

So "läderlapp" is an old Swedish slang or colloquialism for bat. Back in the 50s when Batman was first brought to Sweden English literacy was a lot worse than it is now, and translating titles and names were much more common. A direct translation of Batman would be "fladdermusmannen" - which is a very unwieldy name - so they settled for a then-more-common slang for "the bat". It does sound a little better, though it would have been best to just do what finally happened from the 80s and let Batman remain untranslated.