Blade Runner (origin of the name)

[The Balinese Goddess of Plenty]

> You probably have the translated version of Blade Runner: Do Androids
dream of
> Electric Sheep?. That book was published the same year the movie came
out, so
> of course they use the term "Blade Runner" instead of "Bounty Hunter" so
you are
> able to be familiar with both. You'd hafta buy the orginal Do Androids
dream of
> Electric Sheep to get Bounty Hunter instead.
>
> Another possibility I just thought of is that they couldn't think of the
right
> term to translate it into so they just used Blade Runner, because you'd be
> familiar with it anyway.

Hmm... is there a french translation for bounty hunter? I would have thought
so... but then I got an E in GCSE French! Does anyone know? And if there
isn't, then what does the Admiral say in The Empire Strikes Back when Vader
is speaking with Bobba Fett and the other... um, 'bounty hunters'?

Alex

[POD {铱觹]

The Balinese Goddess of Plenty <al...@whitehartlane25.freeserve.co.uk>

> Hmm... is there a french translation for bounty hunter?

Chasseur de générosité

according to Altavista's translation webpage.

[viper]

Of Course there is a translation.
it s " Chasseur de primes"

In ESB, the Admiral says "We don't need those Blade Runner". Well no, he
uses "Chasseur de Primes". But that would have been fun, wouldn't it ?

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[viper]

No, not "chasseur de générosité".

Generosité means "generosity", which have nothing to do with Bounty

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> The Balinese Goddess of Plenty <al...@whitehartlane25.freeserve.co.uk>
>

> > Hmm... is there a french translation for bounty hunter?
>

[John Baker]

In article <848pan$47q$1...@news2.isdnet.net>, "viper" <vi...@infonie.fr> wrote:

> No, not "chasseur de générosité".
>
> Generosité means "generosity", which have nothing to do with Bounty

That was, how you say, transliteration? - "bounty" could definitely be
defined as "treasure," which would lead eventually to "generosity." But
the meaning of the phrase is lost in the literal translation of "bounty
hunter." Obviously.