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My wife is a translator and based on our conversations and her experience, subtitles are needed because people want to have the original audio + text, foreign s
by cardosof 5y ago
My wife is a translator and based on our conversations and her experience, subtitles are needed because people want to have the original audio + text, foreign subtitles are needed for obvious reasons, and human translators are needed for the "tricky" parts like new words and expressions, cultural context expressions, stuff that can't be directly translated, among other things.
That's why in many countries a translated piece counts as a new/original piece, and the translator has the rights to claim some of the books IP.
- Delk 5y ago> subtitles are needed because people want to have the original audio + text I'm a non-native English speaker, and I like watching English-language content with closed captioning in the original language. There's often a lot lost in translation, especially on the screen (written content might have different issues), because it's often hard to get the rhythm and timing right without changing the contents in non-trivial ways when the source and target languages are completely different. Since I can understand English fairly fluently and nearly always get the nuance that would be lost in a translated version, I prefer the original language, even for the subtitles. Since I'm not 100 percent, though, having the subtitles or closed captioning usually lowers my cognitive load. It also means I don't have to worry about missing something because of an unfamiliar accent, a very quickly spoken line, or some other random thing.