2026-07-28 03:46 UTC
It’s actually quite simple to caption foreign language in film.
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@plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca 2026-07-28 03:59
@Dennis@beige.party it may have a time and place. There can sometimes be an expectation that the audience is not meant to understand the foreign language because the protagonists of the film do not understand it either, and it’s important to the plot. It’s an interesting phenomenon, such as how German jokes in English speaking tv shows need to be manipulated to make sense on German television.
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@plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca 2026-07-28 04:00
@Dennis@beige.party the classic ‘die bart die’ joke in the Simpsons is a good example
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@DavidM_yeg@beige.party 2026-07-28 04:25
@Dennis@beige.party This is really a sub-toot about the current trend to meaninglessly short and vague low effort #altText, isn’t it?
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@Bene@fosstodon.org 2026-07-28 04:28
@Dennis@beige.party as a German I can say: they subtitled exactly what was said.