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ohiosmith

(24,262 posts) Fri Oct 26, 2012, 04:48 PM Oct 2012

More dumb shit: why do I increase the TV volume when I watch a film with subtitles?

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More dumb shit: why do I increase the TV volume when I watch a film with subtitles? (Original Post) ohiosmith Oct 2012 OP

Eh? Speak up! geardaddy Oct 2012 #1

It make the subtitles easier to read. texanwitch Oct 2012 #2

BECAUSE!!! JUST BECAUSE!!! MiddleFingerMom Oct 2012 #3

Music? Sound Effects? edbermac Oct 2012 #4

As Julia Roberts said in "The Mexican" - "Emotion transcends language". HopeHoops Oct 2012 #5

For the same reason HeiressofBickworth Oct 2012 #6

I found myself doing it pipi_k Oct 2012 #8

For the same reason we yell at whistler162 Oct 2012 #7

And no matter how high you raise it... pinboy3niner Oct 2012 #9

geardaddy

(24,931 posts)

1. Eh? Speak up!

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Fri Oct 26, 2012, 04:52 PM

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texanwitch

(18,705 posts)

2. It make the subtitles easier to read.

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Fri Oct 26, 2012, 04:58 PM

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That is what I think.

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)

3. BECAUSE!!! JUST BECAUSE!!!

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Fri Oct 26, 2012, 05:09 PM

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edbermac

(15,942 posts)

4. Music? Sound Effects?

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Fri Oct 26, 2012, 05:13 PM

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HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

5. As Julia Roberts said in "The Mexican" - "Emotion transcends language".

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Fri Oct 26, 2012, 06:03 PM

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That's an excellent movie by the way.

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)

6. For the same reason

Reply to ohiosmith (Original post)

Fri Oct 26, 2012, 08:59 PM

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we speak louder to people who don't understand English.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)

8. I found myself doing it

Reply to HeiressofBickworth (Reply #6)

Fri Oct 26, 2012, 09:43 PM

Oct 2012

when someone we see each week in a local restaurant came in one day and started writing stuff down because he had lost his voice somehow.

He wasn't hard of hearing, just hard of speaking...yet I felt like I needed to talk louder to him.

Weird stuff.

whistler162

(11,155 posts)

7. For the same reason we yell at

Reply to ohiosmith (Original post)

Fri Oct 26, 2012, 09:28 PM

Oct 2012

fureners when the ain't not able to speak Inglish!

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

9. And no matter how high you raise it...

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Fri Oct 26, 2012, 09:53 PM

Oct 2012

...the font size never gets any bigger!1!!

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