Saturday, November 18, 2023

Just how old do you think we are?

12-year-old E and I were talking about languages in the car this afternoon when I was telling her about a funny time in my childhood when my sister Ruthie and I translated some lines from a new Batman movie (which were totally cut-and-dried in English) into Taiwanese, which somehow made the lines supremely hilarious to us:


Small-time villain, suddenly subdued by Batman in the shadows of the night: Who are you?
Batman: I'm Batman.


E had my phone with her in the back seat, so she looked up the scene on YouTube, which I heard but could not see while I was driving.

Not totally sure myself, I asked, "Is that from the Batman movie from the 1990's?"

E answered, "I don't think so… it was in color."

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