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17 subtitle languages, none of them English

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

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  • thefluffiest@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Come on where is your sense of adventure!? Go for Hungarian, you might learn something.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 🤷

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      • thefluffiest@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No? Hmmm Norwegian (Bokmål) then?

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    • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?)

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And still never once did you stop and ask whether it’s you who speaks the wrong language.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Damn, that’s impressive! What languages do you know, if it’s not too invasive?

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  • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just learn Macedonian

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s your answer to everything!

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      • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Еј, што не е во ред со македонскиот?

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It could be worse. You could speak a minority language. Then this shit stops being “mildly infuriating” to become “frankly depressing”.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      True.

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  • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What service are you using that doesn’t offer English subtitles?

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Shapillon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I believe Bill Maher could suck the fun out of a bouncy castle by his mere presence.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If the audio is English, you can expect the English text stream to be called “closed captions”

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    • underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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
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      • teft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)
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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Aint “Open” actually burned-in?

        Btw: For linebreaks you need to spaces after the Enter

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      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)?

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Have you tried opensubtitles.org? Or any torrent tracker?

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  • Funkytom467@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you looking for English or Spanish?

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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…

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      • Funkytom467@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah i get that reading the subs really helps with focus. It’s even the meta in shorts now to retain attention.

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      • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My wife also has ADHD and says that watching stuff at 1.5x or 2x helps.

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      • Funkytom467@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Image

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  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No English, Spanish or Chinese? Hmm

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  • wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Summary:

    Useless Useless Mostly useless Ingen problem Excuse me is something in your throat? Perkele Whiny Useless Useless

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    • Presi300@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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? !<

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      • wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Having watched the Muppets, swedish isn’t too far off, right?

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Speaking as someone culturally obligated to make fun of Sweden and Swedes? Sure!

      Speaking in any other capacity, though? Not quite 😄

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  • mydude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Somebody help me with a joke about a Czech mark

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Isn’t it enough that you swindle the people of Czechia, you have to make fun of them individually too? 😉

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  • yannic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Too bad Hindi isn’t listed. I’ve found many a “Hearing Impaired” subtitle stream listed as such.

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  • fraksken@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like your tats

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s an actor in the show, not me 😄

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      • fraksken@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Shoot. I was about to comment your sexy knees. I thought it was a reflection.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I find Macedonian is close enough to English that I can get by /s

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  • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you need subtitles because that person on the couch is playing Wonderwall?

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 😄

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