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"Why doesn't Univision put English subtitles on American movies?"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Shouldnt that be:

"The life of a Repo man is always intense"

7/13/08, 9:17 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nothing like to seeing American movies dubbed into a foreign language to make you feel right at home.

To me this is the best bit of evidence I've seen that we're losing our country.

7/13/08, 9:26 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Funny, it seems like the number one commercial sponsor of Univision programs is "Ingles sin Barreras" - they are always advertising on Univision.

7/13/08, 9:43 PM

Anonymous GettingAngry said...

I'm not sure how this relates to the topic at hand, but there is NOTHING - repeat NOTHING - that makes my blood boil more than seeing parents speak to their kids in a foreign language in a public place. If the parents are not well educated (and they usually aren't), you just know that kid will never end up speaking English decently. I've spent 35+ years living in Queens and New Jersey, so living around immigrants is not a new experience. That said, I can't remember this particular problem ever being so bad. BTW, I was just in a NYC subway car (on the A train) that was 100% plastered in a Bud Light advertisement, in SPANISH!! I am sure that's old hat for LA, but it was never this bad in NYC.

7/13/08, 10:18 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It seems to be going about it a bit backwards to first dub the film into Spanish, and then add English subtitles. Why not just add Spanish subtitles to the the original? (Yes, I know: spoken lines are long, subtitles are short, but even so.)

7/13/08, 11:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Reminds me of a revelation I had a few years ago in Germany. I speak a little high school German, and would pull out a dictionary in shops and on the subway to help me figure out what words meant. Then I realized - I live in a metropolitan area with many immigrants that speak no English or poor English, but I have never seen any of these people pull out a dictionary!

7/14/08, 12:40 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I'm not sure how this relates to the topic at hand, but there is NOTHING - repeat NOTHING - that makes my blood boil more than seeing parents speak to their kids in a foreign language in a public place. If the parents are not well educated (and they usually aren't), you just know that kid will never end up speaking English decently. "

I knew a lot of kids growing up whose parents didn't speak English well and they turned out fine. It's IQ that makes the difference. Anybody who goes to public school and interacts with English speakers and is taught in the language on a daily basis during their formative years will learn it if the kid is smart enough.

Kids end up talking like their friends, not their parents, as Steven Pinker tells us. If you know kids who grew up in America but can't speak proper English it's because their stupid.

On

7/14/08, 1:07 AM

Blogger KingM said...

Neither of the above statements are true. First, language ability is often divorced from other aspects of intelligence. For you Bell Curvers, consider that it's quite easy to find people in sub-Saharan Africa who speak 4-5 languages fluently. They usually speak a tribal language, a national language or two, plus English or French.

Secondly, for most kids, learning a home language will not affect their English, so long as they have English-only instruction in school.

As an example, I speak to my son only in Spanish, but his English is well ahead of his Spanish due to all of the other English influence in his life. He seems to be doing fine in both languages, however.

7/14/08, 7:53 AM

Blogger Truth said...

The short answer is that the only English speaker watching Univision are horny males who want to see half-naked Latinas bouncing around. The subtitles on such inane programing are totally superfluous.

7/14/08, 8:35 AM

Anonymous xrwjda said...

Yep, it's pretty common for immigrant kids to speak perfect English without an accent, and what sounds to my gringo ear like perfect Spanish. (Though I bet a native speaker notices differences that I miss.) This is sort of a commonplace funny scene, right? The teacher says "Enrique is never ready for class" and Enrique translates to his mom as Ella dice que todavia estoy listo para clase.

The second-generation Mexican and Salvadoran immigrants I know, the ones who grew up here, always seem to speak reasonably good English, even when their parents speak little or no English.

7/14/08, 11:02 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Criticizing Perenchio and/or Saban for holding back the spread of English in the interests of higher profits would be racist, so it's just not done."

Especially when such criticism is half-backed conjecture you just pulled out of your ass. You call yourself a journalist? Follow up. Make phone call or two. Find some facts.

Oh wait, you're scared of facts, which is why you're not a real journalist.

Never mind.

7/14/08, 3:45 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Saban bought Univision? I'm wondering if this is part of a plan to convert America's rapidly growing Latino Catholic population from Christianity to the "Judeo-Christian tradition", as they've done to the ridiculously gullible Evangelicals.

7/14/08, 10:13 PM

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