>>Anyone know why some of the characters' words are printed in subtitles? The entire show is in English...
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>Didn't have that here. Maybe they felt some of the accents would be confusing in the US and people wouldn't understand what they where saying.
Until I started school I sounded like I came from Wiltshire and I still sometimes turn on subtitles for watching stuff with a lot of northern accents (or Cornwall). Some slang is easier to figure out in context as well if you see it written once. Recently watched "Shameless" and for the first couple of episodes I turned on the subtitles.
My wife has trouble with the British "Office" [s] and pretty much anything not introduced by Alistair Cooke ( it was fun to watch her watch Kenneth Clarke too - felt like I was doing simultaneous translation ...; -)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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