Bollywood, with its powerful pull among the least-educated, may help the many who can read only simple words.Brij Kothari of PlanetRead, an NGO, believes that "same-language subtitling"—providing subtitles for the lyrics of catchy Bollywood songs offers valuable reading practice.
Over a runtime of nearly two and a half hours, that means there are still a lot of subtitles to read.
Even I could tell the subtitles were idiotic, and I barely speak a word of Spanish.
Updated at 11.40pm AEST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 9.08pm AEST12:08 — Philippe Perez (@p_perez) May 11, 2014 The person doing the subtitles at @Fed_Square has given up I think.
All three videos have similar production: Arabic subtitles are used throughout, title cards have similar font and the various components are edited together in a similar fashion.
The BBC subtitles machine took a brave run at Man United's line-up in February, but came unstuck when it got to Adnan Januzaj: "Rooney, Juan Mata, Janet jazz jazz jam…" And a few months later, as Wales lock Jake Ball prepared to take on Australia, the BBC website listed him as "Jake Ballsack".
The mushrooming of streaming and filesharing anime online, sometimes with fans providing the subtitles – "fansubbing" as it is known – is also resulting in TV channels being bypassed, though the legal status of doing this is murky.
I had to go to MS centres in Glasgow and Bristol, asking people: What did it feel like when you were told you had MS? That was the only time Ive felt like a parasite. The gay sex scene with Linus Roache in Antonia Birds Priest was easier than clinches with actresses, he says (With women, you want subtitles saying: I hope you dont think Im enjoying this).
Is it because they didn't like those ugly subtitles getting in the way?
Imagine watching an English movie with subtitles - in English.
"Specifically, I have taken note of the lack of English subtitles for the Wagner Opera Siegfried," Carr quotes the vice president of Singapore Airlines as saying.
