• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It’s really easy to watch the movie, and to catch that one word in the sentence you want to look at without losing anything in the frame. People who watch with subtitles don’t read every sentence, more like 30 words per movie, and subtitles and scenes don’t change that fast, you have ample time to do some back and forth between the image and the text.

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      7 months ago

      It never works like that for me; if the subtitles are on, I can’t distract myself from them whatever I do and end up reading every sentence.

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          This but unironically. You learn over time how to read subtitles without having to focus on the text. If you’ve ever tried speed reading, it’s a similar skill. You’re not really reading each letter of each word, you’re just kind of absorbing the pattern of the text to help inform how you interpret what you’re hearing.

          With worse hearing loss you’ll obviously not be able to rely as much on the audio and will have to focus more on reading, but in those cases I don’t think anyone would argue the subtitles aren’t improving your experience of the video.

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          That’s a dumb dismissive response. It’s a passive entertainment medium, it’s not supposed to require any skill or effort at all. The subtitles being on screen makes the experience significantly less enjoyable for many of us, and that’s all that needs to be said for it to be 100% valid

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      Yeah, I feel like people in this thread are really slow readers. After a while, you learn to do both at the same time. it’s really not difficult. I just watched Zone of Interest and Anatomy of a Fall. Both are in foreign languages (to me, an English speaker), and therefore were entirely subtitled. Both are beautifully filmed, and I had no problem completely appreciating that while still being able to understand everything being said. It was trivial.

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      7 months ago

      It’s really easy to watch the movie, and to catch that one word in the sentence you want to look at without losing anything in the frame.

      What? How would you even do this? Glance straight to the one word you need, somehow locating it without reading the other words?

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        Yeah, it’s pretty easy to do. The sentences always lag behind a bit, and you know which part of the sentence you want to reread. Movies just don’t move that fast.

        Your eyes can also understand words without reading them, that’s how youre able to skim to a known part of a text you want to reread, in a book for example.