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> As to Trainspotting, I found the subtitles a daft idea. Totally unnecessary, but then I'm from NE England. Coming from Australia I would say that the subtitl
by cookie_monsta 2y ago
> As to Trainspotting, I found the subtitles a daft idea. Totally unnecessary, but then I'm from NE England.
Coming from Australia I would say that the subtitles were mostly useful and only sometimes unnecessary. I'm ok with accents, but there's a lot of nuance that you miss when you're mostly infering from context.
That said, when we heard that the original Mad Max got dubbed for the US release we all fell around laughing
- AStonesThrow 2y agoI was raised in the #1 most Anglophile home in the American Southwest, [and baptised on St George's Day], and so PBS was not optional, etc. I can follow a wide variety of accents in this regard, slang, jargon and localized vocabulary, but subtitles still help a lot. Of course in foreign languages/dialects, our written proficiency/vocabulary may have a certain Venn overlap with the verbal skills. When the dialogue is thick and lip-reading may fail, seeing the words is great. Often there may be unfamiliar words dropped in, or a sentence we couldn't decipher aurally, and there's the subtitle to spell it out for us. I often subtitle American English shows as well. I suppose I'm simply addicted to reading words.