• Drusas@fedia.io
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    10 hours ago

    It’s also torture if the subtitles don’t (reasonably) match for non-dubbed content.

    This bothers me more with captioning for English language movies in English. They abbreviate a lot to make it easier to quickly read what is being said. Sometimes that makes perfect sense and is very useful. A lot of the time, they’re just cutting out details for no good reason.

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      5 hours ago

      It’s also very annoying for non-native speakers who want to listen to the original audio and have the subtitles as help when they don’t understand something:

      • what was that one word I didn’t get?
      • subtitles: completely different sentence (with the same meaning, OK, but different words)