Re: orthography and pronunciation
| From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 19, 2001, 21:10 |
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CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
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>Indeed. Merkins have taken a similar tact by simply never watching
>foreign movies. Unless they're in something approaching intelligble
>speech. It's a lot easier this way! ;)
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>Padraic.
I have a friend who says he wont watch subtitled movies because it's "too
much work" to read the subtitles. He also says it distracts him from the
action.
Personally, when i was watching Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, i really
didnt notice i was reading after a while. And i didnt miss a thing.
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