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• Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You say that, but I have no problem at all with subtitles if I need them for another language. I've been watching Das Boot with my newborn by my side and it's a great experience.

  I think the issue I'm trying to complain about is having two options (e.g. if I'm watching with someone that insists on subtitles) where I could have the better experience without them. My brain can't opt out of reading them.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My brain can’t opt out of reading them.

    Neither can your kids. And that’s a good thing. Not much into reading, are you?

    Stephen Fry talks about turning on the subtitles

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    • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What a strangely presumptuous and negative response.

      I built myself a home theatre setup with an HDR TV to enjoy the visual medium. If I then spend the duration reading rather than enjoying the cinematography and colours then I might as well just go read in the armchair I have for that, in a different room.

      Am I also listening to music incorrectly?

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Almost as if I’m a compulsive reader!

        I have never met a person who has said “I couldn’t see the movie/show from all that reading I had to do”. And in the movies there’s subtitles in two different languages, while a third one is being spoken. (Officially bilingual country and city so all shows at the theatre have both Finnish and Swedish subs.)

        I’m not presuming anything. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying the “visual medium”. You’re just not used to reading, clearly, meaning you’re probably not a big reader.

        I’m from a country which prefers subs over dubs, and my personal experience (and studies such as the one Stephen is talking about) has shown that keeping subtitles on will improve literacy.

        You say you have a newborn. So I thought it would be a good time to suggest that maybe you should try getting used to subtitles, because if you do, then you can keep them on by default and increase your child’s (and anyone else watching) literacy, just by doing that.

        No-one is saying you should do this thing or that thing. Studies are showing that literacy improves if you use subtitles. That’s it. End of story. Not even a suggestion as to what you should do or how you should value literacy as a skill.

        You do you man.

        The only subs that really bother me are hardcoded asian subs with a hard black background, taking like a third of the screen and I don’t even understand the text. But then I just delete that version of whatever it was and find a new one. So I do understand personal preference and wanting to not have needless things you aren’t used to.

        You make you own choices, I can’t, or rather won’t make suggestions. Not my place. But I can say what I think is factual. Like “using subs improves literacy”.

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