Re: orthography and pronunciation

> Christophe wrote:
> >But I wonder, are Americans
> >as lazy as French people when it comes to reading subtitles? (some French
> >friends of mine told me that they will never watch movies in original
> >version
> >because it's too difficult to read the subtitles and watch the images at
> >the
> >same time. And when you count the number of people who are actually
> >illetrate...)
>
> My pet peeve against subtitles is that they're too slow; when I
> read a line
> my eyes want to read the next line, but that won't have popped up
> yet. This
> can happen three, even four, times on a single line (ie I reread it
> accidentally). Really annoying, especially when I'm tired and my eye
> musculature take on a life of its own ...
>
Personally I enjoy subtitles in foreign films, if it's a language I'm trying
to learn then you pick up vocabulary that way. I also insist on using closed
captions even on normal TV. It makes you miss less of the dialogue if you're
somewhere noisy too.

Imperative

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