lxxviii classification. The definition of acceptable here is that If the result of slang
translation uses slang expression that commonly used in Indonesian society. Here are some of the data which belong to this classification:
Example 1:
97. ST: Cady Heron: She was such a good...Slut TT: Dia orang yang sangat….jalang.
The dialogue above was said by Cady when she saw Regina was kissing Aaron. Regina had promised to Cady that she wanted to hook her up with Aaron
the day before. She felt mad to Regina because she kissed Aaron and swore her using the word slut. It expresses her anger to Regina.
For respondents, the translation of slang expression has been acceptably translated into slang target language in the term of swearing word. Slang
expression slut is applied as the equivalence of jalang which shows that the word slut
means sexually immoral woman and an expression of someone’s feeling, which is anger. All the three raters gave score 3 for this datum. It means that the
translation of the slang expression is acceptable since it is commonly used in Indonesian.
Example 2
160. ST: Jason: Dude, put on The Ramayana Monkey Chant. TT: Sobat, putarkan lagu monyet.
The data is found when the speaker Jason asked someone on Cady’s party to play the Monkey Chant. Jason used the word dude only as a name-calling.
It did not mean that they had a good relationship. The example above shows the datum which is acceptable. It means that the
translation uses slang expression that are commonly used in Indonesian. All the
lxxix three ratters agreed that an American slang dude in the dialogue is acceptably
translated into sobat in Indonesian.
b. Classification III.2
The data belonging to this classification are those which are less acceptable. This classification includes the data which are scored between 1.7 -
2.3. The definition of acceptable here is that if the result of slang translation uses slang expression that rarely used in Indonesian society. The data below are the
example: Example:
70. ST: Cady Heron: Yeah. Hes almost too gay to function.
TT: Dia sangat gay.
The dialogue above was said by Cady when she saw Damian photo on
Regina’s book and she added bad comment about Damian. The expression of ST is already transferred in TT. However, the
translation is less acceptable because the word sangat rarely used as slang expression in Indonesian. It is more acceptable if translated into gay banget.
c. Classification III.3
This classification covers all the data which are unacceptable. The data which belong to this classification are those data with score between 1, 0 -1, 6.
The reason why the data are included to this classification is that the translation of slang expression does not sound natural for the target reader and uses slang
expression that never been used in Indonesian society. Below is the example of data that belong to this classification:
lxxx Example:
39. ST: Gretchen Wieners: Oh, its so fetch. TT: Sangat Fetch
