User:WaltK/Sandbox 4

Doctor Who is a worldwide franchise. It has been exported to over 200 territories, and localised into various languages.

To the best of my knowledge, these localisations largely remain as faithful to the original English writing as possible; it's nowhere near being a 4kids anime-type situation where entire stories and characterisations are changed, everything in that regard is the same among all regions and tongues.

But when it comes to minutia, y'know, the stuff this very site is outright infamous for covering (among other things), things get complicated. Very complicated.

The thing with foreign translations of works is that not everything can be understood universally. Thematic connections and meanings can get lost, puns and wordplay may be unworkable, and cultural references may need to change.

Hell, some lines have been known to change purely for the sake of it sometimes!

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