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I don't know if you ever played the Monkey Island games, stone, but apparently, due to linguistic problems, a small portion of the third game was cut out of the german-localized version, as
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Hahaha. Can you actually rhyme well in German? Gotta be a bitch with all those consonants.

This is actually a pretty common thing, having jokes, puns, and rhymes taken out of a game during localization because they just don't translate well, if at all. I do have to give props to the people who translated Toriko for getting so many of them in there.
 
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ye i played the monkey island games back in my younger days, wasnt aware of this cut-out-scene, thanks :D

@ slicer. yeah since the german language has sooo many words and discriptions, it works very well. atleast i think it does :p but its a common thing that some of the jokes are unable to translate /get lost in translation.

i remember a scene from "Scrubs" where elliot is talking german, in the german version she talks Danish.
 
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super_slicer said:
Hahaha. Can you actually rhyme well in German? Gotta be a bitch with all those consonants.
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Oh we can! But with Monkey Island 3, it was severe in that section, as there was no way you could translate both meaning and joke into german. So, they cut-out this whole part from the game.

Nowadays, localization efforts are bigger, and usually when translated into german, it's to fit german humor/sayings. But most of the time, the "translated joke" isn't as good as the original one. That's why - thanks to my brother - I started playing games in english voice/text during school. Now, I usually get the jokes/references in games. ^^
 
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