izzyizumi reblogged
Using subtitles as a supplement really shows how subtitles will just. Shamelessly skip parts of the dialogue. Chunks of sentences just get left out entirely.
There's also the fun thing where Netflix and the like will use the subs that are for the original language translation as the subtitles for dubbed versions.
They are often not even remotely the same and there's been multiple times where my friends and I couldn't understand jokes or references made by each other because I'm relying on the subtitles which don't match the actual audio at all.
Netflix has started using actual subtitles for some of their bigger foreign language movies and shows but not all of them and its infuriating that they only started to do so in the past couple years.
#actuallyhoh#americans with disabilities act#us issues#us#us politics#us businesses#netflix#subtitles#closed captioning#the beginning#toei issues#discotek issues#hard of hearing#hoh issues#deaf#(Light spoiler here: so the U.S. side here literally advertised it in theaters as 'with J.P.N version subtitles' including all over Twitter#(Fast foward weeks later and I finally find out {+earlier suspected} theyre)#DUBTITLES#(And I'm honestly a little upset still)#(It can actually cut into if I want to actually see in theater or not)#(Mainly I'm upset at the blatantly false advertising because they tried to convince us *super hard* it was '~100% accurate~' to the JPN)#(Theyre Not)#(Dubtitles Are Not Good Practice!)#(I think they can be nice to have as an *option* on DVDs but like as a *bonus option* on top of an accurate JPN subs track!)#not dgmn#dgmn relevant#(Anyway yes spoiler to anyone planning to see the movie in theater it is Dubtitles there will be some mishaps)#(The main reason I'm upset is those tickets cost like $30+ USD total for 2 people for *Dubtitles* like?!!)#(It wasn't even a 3D showing {the usual price range of that is for 3D!} it was a 2D because this franchise doesnt have full 3D for movies!!#(and Dubtitles are basically the reverse of what is mentioned here with Netflix {dub subtitles on an official JPN version release})