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Re: DVDs and the Need to Swear
Posted By: Etienne, on host 137.122.15.95
Date: Saturday, October 20, 2001, at 19:47:18
In Reply To: Re: DVDs and the Need to Swear posted by Nyperold on Saturday, October 20, 2001, at 18:26:08:

> > Then, the Simpsons one. It's great, get me right.
>
> Oddly enough, we say "don't get me wrong" to mean the same thing.
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> > Only one thing. It's a region 1 DVD, wich mean North America, right? Well, they put the european French dubbing track. I'll put it frankly - It *S*U*C*K*S*, so I'm stuck watching it in English. Still worth the buy, but damned annoying.
> >
> > Plus they subtitle stuff that doesn't need to, IE, street signs and stuff.
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> You mean... they translate the street signs into another language, or just display what's on the signs, like a ToolTip that appears on text-only buttons?

Well, if a 'Don't feed the dog' sign appears on screen in close-up, they write 'Ne nourrissez pas le chien' above it.

In The Flintstone, they'd juste paste a frame of the same thing in French... In the Québec version, they just have some VO reading the sign, wich I prefer.

Etienne

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