Talk:Witch (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Removal of Nazi is a translation issue, not censorship

I think the current section on "censorship" gives a false impression. The original uses "Nazi-like" in a way that is often used in the English language (esp. in the US), meaning "authoritarian", "very strict", "no-nonsense" etc. In other words, it is used in a non-literal way (the mother is not actually considered a Nazi). Another example would be Seinfeld's "Soup Nazi". In German, this meaning does not exist for the word Nazi. If someone is called a Nazi in German that means he is someone supporting the ideology of Hitler's party. So there had to be a translation removing the Nazi part to remain intelligible to the audience. Calling the mother a Nazi in German would have made no sense at all. (Consequently, "Heil" had to be clipped, as well.) The translation they did come up with doesn't really mirror the original's intent, but that's another issue. The German dubbing of Buffy has many problems translating the language and pop culture references, this is just one in a long list. Censorship has nothing to do with it. If you want to create a list of differing, strange or plain false translations in the German version of Buffy, you could make a book from it. In a nutshell, this "incident" isn't notable. I also highly doubt that Nazi references are "routinely removed" from German translations, but I can't prove that. Maybe all those used in the same way as above. The German airing of Seinfeld's "Soup Nazi" most likely didn't contain the word Nazi for the same reason. 134.130.4.46 11:37, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:47, 12 February 2008 (UTC)