Talk:Winter Wrap Up (song)/International versions/@comment-125801-20130610224048/@comment-5288784-20130613142912

You know, I've asked that question to note, that almost all opinions about every language version are biased (mine included).

The sources of this bias may be:
 * If said version is original (usually strong positive bias)
 * If we are used to watching this languages' shows (usually positive bias for English and Japanese, but see also the last point)
 * How close it matches original (closer matches are generally favored, but a strong deviations, that makes it better are also appreciated)
 * If said version comes from our country (positive for those with strong sense of patriotism)
 * If we can understand this language (may be both positive and negative)

Ok, about the last one: whether it's positive and negative, depends on how well translating team handles it. Some nitpickers will point even the slightest difference (they're wrong though, as 1:1 translation will likely screw lip-sync and songs tempo). How they handle puns (like everypony, which probably is untranslatable to most languages) and whether they compensate with extra puns, when they were originally not present (like: Dragonshy -> Exit the Dragon). If they're really good, they may make meh episodes (Spike at Your Service, Games Ponies Play) into something entertaining for those, who knows the language (yes, Magdalena Dwojak have somehow salvaged "Spike at Your Service" and it's not just my opinion).

On the other hand, if you know the language, no translating or logical error will slip through (Rarity, that didn't know that alicorns exist? Check!).

As you see, besides English, you are biased towards Japanese (because of that question I've asked before and also because that's probably the only version, that fans translate back to English). From this points you could also say, that I'm biased toward Polish version (all points besides first).

I'm not saying, that this is really a bad thing. After all, it's us who decide which version we like the most and our opinion should be in this case the only one that matters as long as we are fully aware of the fact, that we're all biased (except that random guy, somewhere out in the world, who doesn't comes from any of the countries where this show is shown, doesn't know which one of those versions is original, knows every of those languages very well yet none of those are his mother tongue and had never before watched cartoons in any of those languages).