And still never once did you stop and ask whether it’s you who speaks the wrong language.
17 subtitle languages, none of them English
Submitted 7 months ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I read 3 of the available languages fluently, that’s not the issue.
The issue is that I’m not fluent in not missing things and having the exact spoken words to read as I hear them helps my ADHD-riddled mind immensely.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Damn, that’s impressive! What languages do you know, if it’s not too invasive?
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Just learn Macedonian
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s your answer to everything!
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Еј, што не е во ред со македонскиот?
lvxferre@mander.xyz 7 months ago
It could be worse. You could speak a minority language. Then this shit stops being “mildly infuriating” to become “frankly depressing”.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
True.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 7 months ago
What service are you using that doesn’t offer English subtitles?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Max. They have some really great content (along with a lot of bad, but whatevs), but they’re REALLY bad at every other part of the whole streaming service thing:
Their player sucks, their selection of sub languages seems more or less random at times, their CC subs ate so badly formatted at synced that they’re literally worse than useless, and they keep recommending I watch the Bill Maher excrement every time I finish watching the latest episode of the excellent Last Week Tonight, with no option to block his smug face from my UI in any way.
Shapillon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I believe Bill Maher could suck the fun out of a bouncy castle by his mere presence.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 7 months ago
If the audio is English, you can expect the English text stream to be called “closed captions”
underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
For anyone who wants to know the difference between these terms:
- subtitles - just includes the dialogue
- captions - also includes description of other sounds
- closed - text is stored separately from the video, and can turn on and off while watching
- open - text is part of the video image itself
teft@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You can include this one too:
- forced - only includes subtitles for speech not in the main language (e.g. Vulcan subtitled but English not in Star Trek)
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Aint “Open” actually burned-in?
Btw: For linebreaks you need to spaces after the
EnterChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 7 months ago
What do you call DVD subtitles, which are in some ways closed (can be toggled) but in some ways like open (stored as bitmaps)?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Usually not but sometimes yeah. Trouble is that, even IF English (CC) had been available, the format and sync alone of Max closed captioning is so bad that It’s literally worse than useless.
I’ll probably see if I can’t find the show with English subs on less official channels, once I’m not too busy complaining about Max sucking to watch lol
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 7 months ago
Have you tried opensubtitles.org? Or any torrent tracker?
Funkytom467@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Are you looking for English or Spanish?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
English. I have ADHD and reading the same words that I’m hearing helps me not get distracted and miss stuff, whereas even small mistranslations into another language I understand is itself a distraction…
Funkytom467@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah i get that reading the subs really helps with focus. It’s even the meta in shorts now to retain attention.
toynbee@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My wife also has ADHD and says that watching stuff at 1.5x or 2x helps.
Funkytom467@lemmy.world 7 months ago
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
No English, Spanish or Chinese? Hmm
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Summary:
Useless Useless Mostly useless Ingen problem Excuse me is something in your throat? Perkele Whiny Useless Useless
Presi300@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Calling a language useless just because you don’t understand it has to be the most retarded take I’ve ever heard.
! Защо си направи труда да преведеш това, нали беше безполезен? !<
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you don’t understand it, isn’t it useless to you???
Also. Welcome to the fucking internet where not everything needs to be 100% serious.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Having watched the Muppets, swedish isn’t too far off, right?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Speaking as someone culturally obligated to make fun of Sweden and Swedes? Sure!
Speaking in any other capacity, though? Not quite 😄
mydude@lemmy.world 7 months ago
[deleted]Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have ADHD and need the subtitles to not miss anything and if they’re not in the same language as the show, I get distracted by imprecise translations.
And yeah, I can read 3 of them fluently too (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish).
I’m not some monolingual American or whatever you seem to have imagined.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
As an American I’d like to be offended but the reality is many of us aren’t even fluent in our primary tongue so monolingual is being generous.
That said how dare you
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Somebody help me with a joke about a Czech mark
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Isn’t it enough that you swindle the people of Czechia, you have to make fun of them individually too? 😉
yannic@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Too bad Hindi isn’t listed. I’ve found many a “Hearing Impaired” subtitle stream listed as such.
fraksken@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Like your tats
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s an actor in the show, not me 😄
fraksken@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Shoot. I was about to comment your sexy knees. I thought it was a reflection.
scarabic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I find Macedonian is close enough to English that I can get by /s
CluckN@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Do you need subtitles because that person on the couch is playing Wonderwall?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s a pirate on the deck of a ship but yeah, if someone on Our Flag Means Death starts playing everyone’s favorite party song, I’m gonna want subs for that too 😄
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Come on where is your sense of adventure!? Go for Hungarian, you might learn something.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes, a new way to be distracted, frustrated, and utterly mystified.
If I wanted that, I’d just watch the news in my own native language or English 🤷
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 7 months ago
No? Hmmm Norwegian (Bokmål) then?
Dicska@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I dipped my toe into learning a bit of Polish which is considered damn hard but still not as hard as Hungarian. I noped out after a few weeks, even though I would still love to be able to speak it. I can’t even imagine how much of a pain it could be learning the top5-10 hardest languages like Hungarian.
And, as the LanguageSimp puts it: there’s not much DLC that you can unlock with it.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I’d believe the biggest (excluding English) DLC unlocks are:
Chinese (dunno which dialect/version of it. Mandarin?)
Japanese
Portuguese
Spanish
And maybe some other overarching language that have commonalities with other language like a slavic language (afaik polish shares some words with russian or croatian?)