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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

[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.