• arctanthrope@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I’ve definitely seen movies where common Spanish words or phrases that an anglophone audience would be expected to understand are transcribed as simply “[speaking Spanish]”

    e.g. “that hombre is loco” becomes “that [speaking Spanish] is [speaking Spanish]”

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      19 hours ago

      I noticed this in Meet The Robinsons. A guy says “Madames and monsuiers” and the subtitle says “speaking french” as if the average English speaker doesn’t know what those words mean

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      3 days ago

      Second this! I very often encounter phrases in foreign languages I understand when I turn up the volume, but the subtitles person has been too lazy to write out or translate.