Talk:Find A Pet Song/International versions/@comment-4605230-20131008060234/@comment-4531340-20131009063344

Yeah, the "biggest horse" and "Wonderscrews" were obviously the dubbers misinterpreting which definition was intended originally; in the case of the former, Trixie says she'll be the "greatest equine in all of Equestria", and I'm guessing they thought "greatest" meant size-wise (so literally) instead of "best", whereas in the latter, it seems obvious to me that they thought "bolt" as in the tool (which is an interchangeable term with "screw", I believe), rather than bolt as in "bolt of lightning" which is what was intended.

But don't get me wrong; I understand (apparently, one of the things about Japanese, and a lot of other languages, for that matter, is that they require more syllables to convey an equivalent amount of information as English, which I've heard is one of the more "compact" languages in the world, and while that's usually not so apparent in dialogue, which can be translated fairly accurately without sounding awkward, it becomes more apparent in songs, where not only does the original line have to be taken into account, but how well it matches up with the melodic and rhythmic schemes, too, so usually the lines in songs have to be re-written more than dialogue lines, while hopefully keeping the basic meaning of the original, so they sound natural in each language).

tl;dr No problem, and I can't wait to hear this song in Japanese XD