I don't know if this has been talked about before, but I have found out that on a French-Canadian station, they are airing a dubbed version of Seinfeld. This info made me wonder how do Seinfeld's funny sayings like "Not that there's anything wrong with it" and "No soup for you!" tranlate into French. Anyone know French well? Also, do the French "get" Seinfeld? Do they understand the jokes? Do they change the jokes so they French can understand? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ! Oh, I'm sorry. Did that break your !! -Nate Grey ! ! concentration? I believe you were !! who knows the French ! ! saying something about "best intentions." !! "get" Jerry Lewis so ! ! -Jules (Pulp Fiction) !! they should "get" Kramer ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Does Seinfeld parlez-vous francais?
Fans discuss how Seinfeld translates to French, questioning whether the humor and catchphrases work in dubbed versions and whether French audiences understand the jokes.
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I watch Seinfeld in french once in a while, the great thing about it is that the episodes are shown in chronoligical order. I watched it today and the episode was "The Contest"!
funny
I get the French version here...I just don't watch it.
Hope that helped. :)
(I watched for 5 mins and turned it off, disgusted.)
Using Virtual Access
in Belgium(french part not the stupid flemish one),they diffuse seinfeld on canal + (private channel) but it is the english version subtitled in french. Sometimes,jokes are modified because they don't exist any translation(like the use of english words similar to each other) so they try to find something else if they can and if not they put something stupid with no real meaning like word to word translation. At my knowledge,it hasn't been showed on any other channel and it was never dubbled in french from now on.