#(especially from what I heard about how much netflix pays its subbers)

[niuxita21]

Hey so I saw that you rb that post about odaat and on the tags you talked about the translation saying "feminine" instead of other word and I was wondering, how would you translate that scene?

Hey anon. That’s the thing, I have no idea! I would venture to say the pun is completely untranslateable, so the next best thing would be to find a funny equivalent that more or less relates to the idea of Elena being gay and abuelita not knowing. I would have to think about this more, but I would definitely try to avoid anything that could make the audience in the target language think about lesbians in a certain way, particularly since it is aimed at Latin America, where there is still a lot of ignorance in this regard.

Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful, but your question caught me off-guard, lol.

Edit: I just thought another option would be to translate only one layer of the pun, so using something like a literal translation of “straight”. It would lose the joke, but I can’t count the number of subtitles I’ve seen where there’s just no way to translate a pun and they leave it literally, and it would definitely be a safer alternative than trying to meddle with ways to associate that with heterosexuality.