View original postIs there a trope for characters who engage in wordplay that makes sense in English when the characters themselves are speaking another language?
I'm sure TV Tropes would have something on that. But in fairness, if you want to do a good translation, if the pun doesn't work in direct translation you'd just have to come up with another pun using completely different words. I'm sure that's what they'll do in the subtitles or dubbed versions of the movie, for instance.
And really, this one's even pretty easy, because aside from Cannoli's witty comment about it, there's nothing in the scene itself that doesn't work anymore if you replace 'garden' by any other comparably random word.
"Why would we be the Gardens of the Galaxy?"
- 13/04/2017 06:24:55 PM
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That pun wouldn't even make sense in whatever language they are probably speaking
- 13/04/2017 09:20:38 PM
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There's always an off chance that it would. 
- 13/04/2017 09:29:08 PM
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- 13/04/2017 09:29:08 PM
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