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Re:When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? by lostlogin on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @12:59AM (#5132612)
Something that fascinated me while in the UK - subtitling accents. I mainly saw this (heard this?) with the Scottish, but other strong accents had this done also. It was the BBC I noticed this with.
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Re:When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? by justincormack on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @04:53AM (#5133151)
This is very rare, I cannot recall seeing it in the last few years. Occasionally on news programmes. Most of the Scottish programmes are only shown there is BBC output is quite regional. You can get them online though now.

Welsh is subtitled but that's a different language...

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Re:When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? by lostlogin on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @10:49PM (#5137959)
It was 2000 a 2001 that I saw this, so things may well have changed in that time frame.
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Re:When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? by laumars on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @03:19PM (#5136001)
I'm really interested to hear that. I've only ever noticed this on American shows and, until now, I always assumed it was added for American's benefit, but hard coded so they also appeared on UK airings. But now I'm wondering we're the ones adding it.
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Re:When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? by groovy2shoes on Sunday February 03, 2013 @02:02PM (#5160664)
Some American shows also have subtitles when the speakers have strong regional accents, particularly accents from the Deep South.
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