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Lost in Translation (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 12 hours ago by obladee@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] Winter_Oven@piefed.social 277 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

lift
flat
chipped

[–] frog@feddit.uk 40 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Thank you for this. I am such redneck I need subtitles for british shows. I can't fucking understand them a lot of times.

This probably helps with users where English isn't their first language.

[–] Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip 12 points 4 hours ago

I need subtitles for british shows

Bullet Tooth Tony: A bookie's got blagged last night. Avi: Blagged? Speak English to me, Tony. I thought this country spawned the fucking language, and so far nobody seems to speak it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGuGzH3Ne5w

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 hours ago

Derry Girls is one of my favorite shows of all time but feck me I can't understand shite without the subtitles

(am northeastern US yank)

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

English ain't my first language. Was taught british in school.

...prefer american english. More similiar to my native lang xD

[–] wieson@feddit.org 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Now this is just a feeling, not a fact.

When I watch British talk shows, I have way less of a problem understanding i. e. Scottish accents than the American guests.
I think, foreign language learners of English might be better at understanding different accents, because they're not locked into one. Or maybe I'm a special little boy idk

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

Perhaps you should seek a Geordie shipbuilder and see how that goes.

[–] frog@feddit.uk 1 points 3 hours ago

That makes sense to me.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

My wife and I will find shows but not really read anything about them, and we put them on and sometimes we're like, shit, they're from England or Scotland, and we have to use subtitles. We just know that, in the past, we've tried to chug along and just lost details.

The complete opposite was true of the show dark, obviously in German (if my poor memory serves), but we couldn't keep track of the story and for probably the only time ever had to switch to dubs, which I am loathe to do, but we were completely lost in the sauce.