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Re:HTML5 game written in 0 lines of JS by talmand on Friday November 22, 2013 @04:56PM (#6784041)
Technically, as long as we have multiple languages with different people knowing different languages then this is a problem for everyone. There might be Russians out there wondering about the interesting things they are missing out on because they don't know English.

I for one want to watch TV programming from around the world just to experience the differences in culture and what they find humorous, sad, exciting, and so on. Sub-titles just don't always translate emotions very well.

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Re:HTML5 game written in 0 lines of JS by iends on Friday November 22, 2013 @07:17PM (#6784599)
Ah, yes, but since I'm an American the idea of learning a foreign language was not impressed on me as I was growing up. Contrast this with some Europeans I run into on my travels and they speak 2, 3, & 4 languages.
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Re:HTML5 game written in 0 lines of JS by talmand on Monday November 25, 2013 @09:56AM (#6794291)
That's probably because they likely need to know those languages. At best only a percentage of Americans could find a second language, Spanish, useful in their day-to-day lives.
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Re:HTML5 game written in 0 lines of JS by kazagistar on Friday November 22, 2013 @06:23PM (#6784416)
Subtitles seem fine to me: they contain the content, and the emotion in the voices crosses linguistic boundaries.
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