Curious about a couple smalll details...
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
I'm just curious: what interested so many of you to watch the shows with subtitles? It's something that would never have occurred to me! (being an English speaker and all)
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Originally posted by chronicthehedgehog:
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Quote:Noisy kids sometimes, and almost always if I'm listening to the commentary. But seriously, you should try it. The brain processes things a little differently when reading lines vs. hearing them. I know I personally have noticed things while reading the subtitles (even the accurate ones) that I hadn't previously. (At least, not consciously.)
Originally posted by pizmobeach:Quote:
Originally posted by chronicthehedgehog:
I think my favourite dodgy subtitle is:
I'm just curious: what interested so many of you to watch the shows with subtitles? It's something that would never have occurred to me! (being an English speaker and all
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With my discs it seems to be a crap-shoot whether or not the STs will be on. At first I would utter profanities and go back and go back trying to switch the gorram things off, but at last gave up and let them do as they please.
It *is* nice to have them on when playing the commentaries, an effect which surprised me and which I'd never have tried on purpose.
bun
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I turned them on after reading a suggestion here on FFF.net. Now I always do so when I have the commentary on.
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
I'm just curious: what interested so many of you to watch the shows with subtitles?
Well I first decided to run the subtitles to make out some lines of dialog that I never quite knew what was being said. Case in point in Out of Gas Wash has the line "When your miracle gets here...." and I wasn't sure if he was really saying, "When your airfull gets here...." either one makes sense in context so I needed more data. Of course since some of the captioning is way off it isn't always safe to use it for that purpose.
Then ther was the time I watched Trash with the French soundtrck and Spanish subtitles. It wasn't quite as funny as I thought it might be but good clean fun none the less.
David
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I have to use the subtitles when I'm watching late at night (my only free time 
) and I don't want to wake the kids...or sometimes when I just don't get what they're saying. 
"Yolanda?"
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I find it easier to memorize things when I can read them, plus with all the slang and tech stuff I wanted to know exactly what they were talking about and how to spell it. They really should have proofread the gorram subtitles, though. There are so many flubs, some just a little off, some WAY off. The website of translations even has a few places where they list the words mentioned as Chinese in the subtitles and says: subtitles wrongly said this was Chinese. He's really just saying "damp lung" or "YoSafBridge" or, in the case of Simon's safe word for River, speaking a different languange entirely. One that really makes me twitch is in TTJ when the train car door slides open, Zoe says "Shiny." and it's subtitled as "Shining" I know it's not that different but come on! It's going to confuse all the hearing impaired brown coats!
Anyway. I'm sure there are little details I've caught that I could share but they've all leaked out of my brain.
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