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[soc_puppet]

Person on Tumblr: Why would people need subtitles for a show that's in English, WTF?

Lots of other people in reblogs: Audio processing disorder, sound mixing in shows has gone to shit, I like to eat crunchy things while watching, etc.

Me, deliberately not reblogging: Interesting that you specify "English" there, and also use the word "subtitles" instead of "captions", because that means that my first thought is that the watcher doesn't necessarily know English. Like, I get that we're assuming that the subtitles are also in English, but OP really didn't specify that, and it's kind of a glaring oversight on everyone's part here.


Yeah, pretty sure adding that in a reblog wouldn't actually help anything, so I'm just keeping it here so I don't go bananas trying not to say it.

Comments

[pikkugen]

Same. Also learning English is easier if you can both hear the words AND see them written, so.

[pangolin20]

I think looking at an English program with Dutch subtitles was even one of the ways I began to learn it, so I can certainly attest to that.

[pikkugen]

The Finns are supposedly Good At Languages because we subtitle everything, rather than dub, so we would hear a lot of different languages if the media field wasn't so overwhelmingly American-dominated. (Even our national channels don't have the funding to import and translate other European productions except rarely, and that's a pity. In my youth we would have heard quite a selection of languages on TV, which of course helped me to learn the five I speak now, not fluently any more, but.)

[pangolin20]

That is certainly a pity...

Which languages do you speak, if I may ask?

[pikkugen]

Uhhh. Finnish is my native one, English is my first foreign, then Swedish, French, Spanish, and Latin which I don't exactly speak but, er, used to read when I was still studying? I also have a smattering of related (and unrelated) languages that I love to pretend I understand but never studied properly.