How Do You Say "WASP" in Portugese?
ABC TV is making the interesting move of franchising Spanish-and Portuguese-language versions of the first season of "Desperate Housewives" for broadcast by networks around the region, using star-studded local casts to re-enact the original scripts.
Producers will shoot different versions of “Desperate Housewives,” to take into account cultural and linguistic differences within Latin America. Argentine Spanish, for instance, is heavily influenced by Italian and has many usages and phrases that would sound odd in Mexico or Venezuela.
Challenges emerged not only in translating the backgrounds of the main characters, says the NY TImes. (subscription required), but also in translating words like "WASP" and "Desperate."
17-Aug-2006
By BL Ochman
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