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I am not really sure if this is a normal thing or not. My hearing friends look at me crazy for this:
Without lipreading, captioning or subtitle-- I am effectively unable to comprehend speech. It's all garbled to me. Wait, wait... this is not the weird part:
If the captioning or subtitle doesn't sync up with audio, my brain throws a hissy fit. Like I was watching Neco z Alenky (good movie) which had both English and Czech audio. Except the problem was the English subtitle didn't match up with the English audio perfectly, and I was effectively unable to understand half of what was being said even though the subtitle was right there! It is not really the subtitle's fault because they translated from the original Czech script, instead of transliterating the English dub which was modified from the original manuscript.
Okay, bad example. I suppose
Um, okay... I know a bit of French. I cannot watch a French movie with English subtitles. I can watch them with French subtitles, but not English subtitles. Why? I don't know. Someone pulled English subtitles on a French movie once in front of me. I ended up having to pull my hearing aids out because there was no way I could read English and listen to French at the same time without being confused.
It's the same thing with hard-subbed ASL movies. I like them when you could turn off the captioning in YouTube, but not when they are hard-coded into the video. So I usually just end up covering the bottom half of the screen with a piece of paper so I could just focus on the signer. One exception to the ASL: if the captioning is glossed, instead of being a true English sentence, then I could follow the video.
Does anyone else have a hard time processing a spoken language they understand with different written language propped up on the screen? Or it's just a weird quirk of mine?
Without lipreading, captioning or subtitle-- I am effectively unable to comprehend speech. It's all garbled to me. Wait, wait... this is not the weird part:
If the captioning or subtitle doesn't sync up with audio, my brain throws a hissy fit. Like I was watching Neco z Alenky (good movie) which had both English and Czech audio. Except the problem was the English subtitle didn't match up with the English audio perfectly, and I was effectively unable to understand half of what was being said even though the subtitle was right there! It is not really the subtitle's fault because they translated from the original Czech script, instead of transliterating the English dub which was modified from the original manuscript.
Okay, bad example. I suppose
Um, okay... I know a bit of French. I cannot watch a French movie with English subtitles. I can watch them with French subtitles, but not English subtitles. Why? I don't know. Someone pulled English subtitles on a French movie once in front of me. I ended up having to pull my hearing aids out because there was no way I could read English and listen to French at the same time without being confused.
It's the same thing with hard-subbed ASL movies. I like them when you could turn off the captioning in YouTube, but not when they are hard-coded into the video. So I usually just end up covering the bottom half of the screen with a piece of paper so I could just focus on the signer. One exception to the ASL: if the captioning is glossed, instead of being a true English sentence, then I could follow the video.
Does anyone else have a hard time processing a spoken language they understand with different written language propped up on the screen? Or it's just a weird quirk of mine?