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- KaiUno, on 05/14/2009, -3/+135Because we Europeans get bombarded with American television during our entire lives and they only get to see the odd non-american program. And if it's a hit, they assimilate it and make their own version before it "spreads too far".
There ya go. - JshMRsn, on 05/13/2009, -1/+94remind me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Ef5Aob4cE
- darkchild82, on 05/13/2009, -6/+71First thing that came to my mind was picturing red-neck Americans with thick Southern accents going about how funny she sounds..
- derektherock42, on 05/14/2009, -7/+46Of course we need subtitles, we need everything dumbed down for us dumbass Americans.
/s - failtrain, on 05/14/2009, -9/+47I think you have a "/s" there by mistake.
- TheGreatBelow, on 05/13/2009, -8/+36Most Europeans can do american accents, yet most Americans can't do a British accent to save their life.
I wonder why that is. - Chooxo, on 05/14/2009, -1/+28That poor lady does not photograph well.
- zerophewl, on 05/14/2009, -7/+31All scotish people should be subtitled if you ask me.
- AGONYTUESDAY, on 05/14/2009, -2/+25they assume Oprah fans are smart enough to read...
- 3rdDay, on 05/14/2009, -0/+21Gonnae no' dae that, Oprah?
- defaultusername, on 05/14/2009, -0/+19Ever heard people from Tangier Island speak?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E @ 0:40
It's in Virginia, by the way. - rolf, on 05/14/2009, -1/+20Some dialects are way stronger than others. I'm probably a step below fluent in German, but I went to this town in southern Germany, and this guy was speaking and speaking, and I just couldn't understand him - actually had to have local natives "interpret" what he was saying. Just an older guy so his speech wasn't as homogenized as the younger generation today but also from a small town where the language just got distinctive characteristics in that area - America doesn't really have that, too young as a country and too mobile to let a really strong dialect set in.
Now to think of it, met a guy working in Germany who was from Dublin, Ireland. Just couldn't understand what he was saying, thought he said he was from Oregon at first. Eventually we both switched to German as I could understand that better than his English (we were both native English speakers).
For the record, I think Susan Boyle is perfectly understandable, so it's worlds apart from that. - Chrysalii, on 05/14/2009, -1/+19not enough space on the screen for both Oprah and subtitles.
ZING! - MattDell, on 05/14/2009, -1/+18Everyone has an accent.
- roostersheep, on 05/14/2009, -0/+14Brit-ayn? Thad aint no state I'd never 'eard of.
- Networktwenty3, on 05/14/2009, -3/+17Oh please, as an american it is insulting all we get is a 3 second clip and the belief that we can not understand her... maybe if we put Ebonix under Oprah she would get the hint.... she is the boss, she is in charge, subtitles are insulting as an american.
- KatherineVolk, on 05/14/2009, -2/+15Oprah Winfrey should be subtitled On Oprah.
- lekahe, on 05/13/2009, -10/+23Scottish, British or spoken by a stranger...
I never got that. How don't people recognize their own language even if it is spoken funny??? - inactive, on 05/14/2009, -3/+15Americans pfft
- inactive, on 05/14/2009, -0/+11They did the same thing for Trainspotting when it was released in the USA :D
- charlietuna, on 05/14/2009, -0/+10Lets see Oprah subtitle this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-xHPU6NulM - Chooxo, on 05/14/2009, -0/+10Well, Britney makes dance pop music.
It's apples and oranges.
I wouldn't go to Susan Boyle for sexy dance-pop and I wouldn't go to Britney for showtunes. - wreckosaurus, on 05/14/2009, -2/+12Everyone! Make a big deal about this, it's super important!
- Duggan360, on 05/14/2009, -0/+10er...No Thanks
- inactive, on 05/14/2009, -2/+12*****, you beat me to it. My mind also went right to this clip when I read the article
- CardHockman, on 05/14/2009, -0/+9Straight out of Darkplace:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JyZ3_kDxe8 - jba68, on 05/14/2009, -0/+9America doesnt have distinctive dialects? Try the deep south... or East Tx and The La border.
- crunchyeyeball, on 05/14/2009, -0/+8Sendhil Ramamurthy - The guy who plays Mohinder Suresh in "Heroes". His accent is very British, with just a suggestion of Indian roots.
As soon as I hear him speak, I feel like I know his life story. Born in India, moved to England at an early age. Very well-educated, probably Oxford, where he spent much of his young adulthood. I don't think this is what the writers laid out, but that's what his accent says perfectly.
I was born and raised in UK and when I first heard him speak, I would have sworn the guy was British. I had to google him just because I couldn't figure out why I'd never seen the guy in anything here in the UK before. - chaos7, on 05/14/2009, -1/+9who the ***** would digg this
- 10ofDiamonds, on 05/14/2009, -0/+7Most Southern accents are the closest American cousins to the English accents(foghorn leghorn). Southerners would be the last ones to need subtitles. Calling you on your inaccurate Southern bashing.
- KimmyGibbler, on 05/14/2009, -1/+8Oprah's show has expanded since the early 80s. People all over the country can see it now
- inactive, on 05/14/2009, -2/+9Oprah Winfrey Show viewers are dimwits. What else is new?
- CleoQKazoo, on 05/14/2009, -0/+7You have no idea how different English sounds in other places. Southern or "Hick" states are hard to understand sometimes, of even in the Caribbean, they speak English. When I play my Soca music my friends are always surprised when I say they're speaking English
- eqisow, on 05/14/2009, -1/+8They call those "Closed Captions"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning - forevernomad, on 05/14/2009, -1/+7Americans are the Borg, why didn't I see it before? Suppose I should sit back and let it happen, resistance is futile.
- Haggismuncher, on 05/14/2009, -0/+6Away you n' boil yer heed ya wee baw bag !
- MightyUpsetter, on 05/14/2009, -0/+6you imagined it
- Chrysalii, on 05/14/2009, -0/+6*****, piss, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****
- Thorpe, on 05/14/2009, -0/+6Sorry but I'd rather make babies with Britney.
- theodenking, on 05/14/2009, -4/+10To be fair it's not uncommon for the BBC to subtitle strong northern accents for the benefit of southerners.
- Duggan360, on 05/14/2009, -2/+7Well no one asked you :)
- ohreilly, on 05/14/2009, -0/+5I must be watching the wrong programmes, because I've never seen it. The only times I've seen the BBC subtitle stuff like that is when someone is on the phone and it's a bit of a dodgy recording.
I can't say much though; I come from and live in the world of incomprehensible speech that is the South West. - LukeEsntlPdx, on 05/14/2009, -1/+6Is Oprah really not able to understand Scottish people?
- johnsmith555, on 05/14/2009, -1/+6To be honest, I rarely understand Oprah
- Chrysalii, on 05/14/2009, -0/+4well if they keep doing this...
*everything gets dumbed down*
...mmm why are they morons? Companies think that Americans are idiots.
There's your self-fulfilling prophecy. - CleoQKazoo, on 05/14/2009, -0/+4Also America is full of people who English isn't their first language so I'm sure it did help some
- onsenguy, on 05/14/2009, -0/+4Most appropriate use of subtitles when a person is speaking English: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu7aj1SCE8k - r2builder, on 05/14/2009, -0/+4ZackM - that's English, not Scottish. Dosscunt.
- sabach, on 05/14/2009, -1/+5I had the damnedest time understanding the dialog in that movie. I used to work with a guy from Liverpool, had a rough time understanding him too. After a year or so he Americanized his speech quite a lot.
- mizatt, on 05/14/2009, -1/+5Many British actors do a ***** job with their American accents, like Jude Law
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