Why do anime have different dubs and subs?

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Phenomenon: Dubs and subs of the same anime usually have different lines.

Question: Why do they translate it twice? I mean, they can translate an anime once and for all, using that translation for both subs and dubs. I kind of wonder how the translation in sub and dub work is done.

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You can also have different subtitles depending on how old the anime is. Language doesn’t always have a perfect word=word match and one person’s interpretation of a phrase may be different than another’s; this is especially true with idioms.

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