Subtitles had one job.

    by yahooxy

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    1. When Bad Bunny was singing I turned to my wife and said “The hands of the poor guy doing the Spanish sign language must be just a blur, like the Agents in the Matrix.”

    2. It would be pretty funny if that’s what they actually were saying.

      “Hablando en Español? Hablando en Español! Hablando, en Español…”

    3. There was a commercial where the CC said “singing in global language” my guest joked it must have been esparanto

    4. Unavoidable. Nobody could have possibly known ahead of time that he might be singing in Spanish. I blame the media for not covering this story.

    5. Admirable-Hospital78 on

      We have global translation machines IN OUR POCKETS and the billions of dollars flowing through entertainment can’t be bothered to hook one up to make proper subtitles.

      [unintelligible rambling]

    6. They were even better during the Olympics opening ceremony. The AI was just guessing English words when the singer sang in Italian. It was just like “Bureau train syphon Steeeeve!”

    7. Almost like cable tv stenographers (I don’t know the term for someone who does closed captions) in an English speaking country can’t translate an almost all Spanish halftime show. It’s almost like it doesn’t fit the market to do that.

    8. There a lot of movies that do this for some reason. Some dialogue in Spanish will be subtitled, but then other things being spoken in Spanish will just have [Speaking Spanish].

    9. Impossible_Past5358 on

      Watching CC on youtube…many questionable translations there… especially when medieval historians are talking about *agrarian life*

    10. purple_spikey_dragon on

      I am a fluent Spanish speaker and i can confirm he was indeed speaking in Spanish.

    11. Certain-Singer-9625 on

      You see stuff like this all the time. The worst ones look like this:

      (speaking in a foreign language)

      Then there’s the auto translation feature on YouTube. Often when there’s an outdoor video with traffic noise, I see this:

      (applause)

    12. Imagine the writers for a TV show just totally fucking with their deaf audience by including a lot of dialogue that just says shit like “something in Spanish” or “he keeps talking for a while”.

    13. CombatSandwich on

      I swear there was one commercial on the Peacock stream that said: [SPEAKING IN GLOBAL LANGUAGE] at point point.

    14. To be fair even most Spanish speaking people have a hard time understanding whatever the hell they speak in Puerto Rico 🤣 my wife was showing me the halftime show video and I genuinely went looking for the closed captions cuz I didn’t get half of what he’s saying and Spanish is my first language

    15. Banana-phone15 on

      She asks him, “what language are you speaking”

      And he replied “Speaking in Spanish” 😂

    16. Has anyone translated his set list lyrics? I did. JFC, I can’t believe he got away with that. 😳

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