Garfield: Lost in Translation

Garfield becomes quite existential when translated into Japanese and then back into English. Based off of this website.

A few people have asked for the originals; they are of course at Garfield.com.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Posted at 11:58 AM

3 comments:

  1. tudzaApril 13, 2009 at 1:00 AM

    What does the [GAHUIRUDO that shows up in some of these signify?

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  2. M*P*LockwoodApril 13, 2009 at 8:20 AM

    I think that's a phonetic translation of "Garfield" into Japanese. Some English sounds are not represented in Japanese. "fee" becomes "hui," L and R are not distinguished from one another in Japanese so L becomes "Ru" and Japanese is made up of syllables with vowels at the end, so the ending D becomes "do."

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  3. Jason GlastetterApril 13, 2009 at 1:40 PM

    Indeed, Garfield translates into Japanese, but not back into English (usually) when using Yahoo! It's a tip-off that I used babelfish instead of the google translator. I was actually thinking of purchasing www.gahuirudo.com, but I sort of feel "Garfield: Lost in Translation" has a certain ring.

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