• FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago

    I have a friend who is Swedish, and my all time favorite isn’t a movie, but a comic book. Batman translated into Läderlappen. So after some discussion about that period in time and how things were being translated I asked, well then what did Robin translate to, and he looked at me and said “Robin”. I almost fell out of my chair. So he brought me a copy of Läderlappen and Robin. I love it.

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      23 days ago

      That’s so funny. I just though Läderlappen just sounds like german for “leather rag” and google does in fact translates it to “The Leather patch”.

      I wonder what their thought process was in coming up with leather patch for badman.

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        23 days ago

        I am not sure, but to tie this all back together, the whole conversation came up when we were talking about how, when you kill a bat in Valheim it drops leather.