Erratum to "Subtitling Arabic profanities into English and that aggro: the case of West Beirut"<[Heliyon 8 (12) (2022) e11953]>.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.

Subtitling Arabic profanities into English and that aggro: the case of .

The present article explores one of the most unexpected and unpredictable changes of taboo language by language users and its translation into English as can be illustrated in the analysis of a Lebanese movie entitled The article first argues that taboo language is surely far more difficult than any other types of language to deal with in subtitling. Such a language is inelegant, but so confusing insofar as subtitlers are concerned, apparently due to the degree of social acceptability of the profanities by various cultures on the one hand, and to the technical restrictions related to the subtitling process on the other. The article shows that in an attempt to ensure mastery of the intricacies resulted from the use of obscene-loaded language and technical constraints associated to them, subtitlers use a considerable number of translation strategies.