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BBC Subtitles

Post by piston broke » Mon Oct 02, 2017 5:12 pm

Major cock up, or is it?
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Re: BBC Subtitles

Post by LordBob » Mon Oct 02, 2017 5:16 pm

yeah I saw that, not sure it was an error though ?

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Re: BBC Subtitles

Post by dsr » Mon Oct 02, 2017 5:29 pm

They're wrong about the subtitling normally being accurate! Not that I'm complaining, because it's not an easy thing to do and it's extremely helpful to the deaf, but there are some quite funny misprints.

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Re: BBC Subtitles

Post by ExistentialWanderer » Mon Oct 02, 2017 5:50 pm

On a day of awful news that gave me a laugh. :D

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Re: BBC Subtitles

Post by evensteadiereddie » Mon Oct 02, 2017 5:52 pm

God knows how they'll cope with the Tory Conference. ;)

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Re: BBC Subtitles

Post by Sean Dyche's Watch » Mon Oct 02, 2017 6:12 pm

there's no chance this was an error - the comma explanation doesn't even make sense.

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Re: BBC Subtitles

Post by LeadBelly » Mon Oct 02, 2017 6:54 pm

There's a lot of fun to be had with the subtitles of live events where the script cant be checked in advance. Trying to work out whats actually been said is a fun game (cricket commentary is especially funny)
You can get some very humorous or rude mis-translations. Rudest one I saw was on a current affairs prog where a guest expert had just said his bit and the host apparently said "thank you vag.n.s" which, after saying Hear Hear, I worked out as a mistake for a slightly rushed "Thank you for joining us".

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