Subtitles of glory

[meganbmoore]

I love my wuxia DVDs, I truly do. At least partly because YesAsia-Taiseng tends to have some amazing...errors...in the subtitles at times.

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It's the actual sentence structure and referrence that makes it bad...unless it's usually used to describe failure over there. When it's used here, it describes the best ones. But, as I mentioned to James, I suspect its the translator just plugging it in to take the place of as cultural word that either he/she didn't know, or didn't think we'd understand. When it appears in context, though...