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Topic: Alternate Title use

7th Jul 2015, 11:46 PM
	Twistin Member since Jan 2012 2057 Points	In its current form, it is up to the whim of the user as to which foreign language title gets to be the alternate title. What if I decided to plug into the Alternate Title field, for example, the Russian title, ie, Враг общества (for The Public Enemy.) The Alt Title field could become a free space for users to add their fav language title -- yes, but one alternate language. Why would one language get preference over the others? I personally believe Alternate Title(s) and Alternate Language(s) to be two different entities. Plural because there is obviously many language titles, in addition to actual alternate titles -- like the noted example of "Airplane", of which many English titles differ between borders. Even in the USA, there are some films that have different reissue titles or regional titles or renamed films that didn't play well due to the title or new titles for the home video release. Those are true alternate titles, but we're only allowed to pick one of them. Further, there are some who consider a working title to be an alternate. (I do not, interesting as those titles may be...) Finally, there's alternate character sets like the aforementioned Russian. Should a native film from such a region be used for character transliteration or for translation? Just some wrinkles that needed to be pointed out.