Re: dialectal diversity in English

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> Holland being the country where this programme was invented, you bet I
> know
> it ;))) .
You have my sympathies.

>>  they subtitle just about
>> everything said. They speak clearly (much clearer than you'd expect,
>> admittedly, but more than clear enough for me, with my dodgy hearing,
>> can understand them). They speak the same accent and dialect as the
>> intended audience ... ??
>
>
> Maybe they want to reach also the deaf and ill-hearing audience too...
Such people will likely have tellies that can show captions, why put
them on everyone's when just about every other show makes them optional?
(And they currently have really crappy ads for them on at least channel
10, and they're free, so ignorance and cost aren't excuses.)

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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