It's fashionable to criticize dubbing because dubbing sucks.
Aww well.
No dubbing doesn't suck, much more people enjoy it than subtitles. It does have to be done by pros though.
This isn't really the question at play, but if you're looking at a dubbed movie, the performances are completely ruined by it. You wouldn't listen to foreign music dubbed, well it's the same with movie for me.
The performance are not ruined at all, especially if the voice matches well with the actor or the original voice, and that the performances are adapted to the language/culture. I think I will make you laugh by saying that "dubbed" music exists, many singers have created several versions of their musics, just because they thought lyrics were important. I feel the same, I hate listening an english song where I don't understand what is saying. The fact is, if music is not adaptated, it's because when in is it is in the most spoken language, it is to say english, and when you know that most musics are in this language, well, a lot of them at least, of course singers will not adapt english into english. If you like not understanding what is said and prefer the true "performance", missing half of what happens in screen, good for you, but please don't make this taste universal because it just sounds stupid.
Subtitles distract from the action, that's true enough, but it's still better than dubbing.
No it's not. As I already said, a lot more people prefer dubbing over subtitles, and I understand it very well, for the reason yourself specified. Subttitles are cool for people who learns a tongue, so they can accustom their ears to the true sense of the words. A very, very, small part of people prefers subtitles because they self-declare themselves "purists", which is completely out of the question, therefore they are elistists. If you have other questions, ask me, I will answer you with pleasure.
@ naukaokodem
As we have seen, there are lots of people who is appreciating this mark of flavor (and yes it is flavorful). It reminds me of a middle eastern folk tale I once heard, the moral of which is that you can't please everybody.
http://www.worldstories.org.uk/stories/story/9-joha-and-his-donkey
Have your own opinion, but don't try to impose it on other people. And actually when I hear people talking in foreign languages I like to listen, even though I don't understand a word.
I'm not trying to impose my opinion to other people because I think I'm doing proof of good sense here. It's not an opinion. Or it's the one of the majority. It's prooved. I would rather say if you like not understanding a word of what the other leaders say, good for you, but stop trying to proove me i'm wrong, because you all are saying the same thing here, strangely there's not a single dissonance, so I believe you did a good job in this forum to forbid criticism, it's just like i am in the world of Brave New World (the book not the game), it's becoming scary, really dudes.
I personally rename all my cities to CITY 1 CITY 2 CITY 3 etc. because I feel that Firaxis wasted too many resources finding city names.
Stop on the offensive sarcasm, you know perfectly that city names requires a lot less effort than foreign speaches (death tongues for a good part of them
), and you can actually LEARN from them, which is not the case with the leaders rumble.
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I was just refering to the location he specified under his pseudonyme, if he doesn't want to say it perfect but stop trying to mock us because we just wanted to know. I was not intending to be offensive, what I think is offensive is that someone mysterious reported my post to the moderators instead of trying to really understand what I said, and also a moderator intervention is very offensive to me, for something that only "some people" took wrongly. I don't think opinions have to become official in such a way, really. So leave me alone please, thank you.
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