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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by Lewton on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:43PM (#16361388)
That’s a far far saner interpretation of “off” than the alternative

On hbo Nordic, (The Scandinavian hbo go) off means -OFF- and it’s absolutely infuriatingly stupid to expect that I can speak Spanish, or Russian, just because I don’t want Scandinavian subtitles when watching an English movie

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by YawningAngel on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:57PM (#16363162)
I feel like English-speaking product design in general has not caught up with the idea that there is a substantial audience of very competent second language speakers. Most educated Continentals I know have similar complaints.
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by xxs on Monday February 12, 2018 @06:04PM (#16363196)
To help out: in the most of Hollywood movies spoken Russian is usually beyond unnatural with a heavy accent... to a point computer synthesized voice acting would be an improvement.
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by ekianjo on Monday February 12, 2018 @08:01PM (#16363899)
Do the same thing happen in Russia when they feature spoken English?
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by xxs on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @04:44AM (#16365914)
(Likely) it used to in the 80s when I was exposed to Russian movies but nowadays I cannot judge due to lack of exposure. (Russian is my 3rd language.)
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