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I am wondering what are some guidelines when translating the lyrics of a song to another language, because lyrics depend a lot on musicality (rhymes, syllables), it's very hard to maintain the same...
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2019-12-08T11:05:16Z (almost 5 years ago)
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repomonster
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2019-12-08T11:05:16Z (almost 5 years ago)
I am wondering what are some guidelines when translating the lyrics of a song to another language, because lyrics depend a lot on musicality (rhymes, syllables), it's very hard to maintain the same meaning across languages, so should you try to keep the meaning as much as possible or not and for what reasons?
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2019-03-01T03:11:30Z (over 5 years ago)
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