Do you use them, Yes or No?
This was the question Margaret asked on her blog, which you can read about here.
We rarely, if ever use subtitles, but had to turn them on the other week, when we decided to watch Shetland.
Now we have tried watching Shetland before but gave up on it, as we only understood half of what they were saying. We watched another episode the other week, but even after putting on the subtitles, I gave up. What's funny though is we are from the border area of England and Scotland, so you would think we would understand the Scottish accent. However, I have a lot of trouble understanding it.
When we came to Canada our next door neighbour was from Scotland and when he was talking I had to look directly at him and really concentrate on what he is saying. 35 years later when I do see him, I still have to really pay attention.
I always remember watching Snatch, starring Brad Pitt and not having a clue what they were saying. I think the copy of the dvd was given to us!! Therefore we couldn't put on the subtitles!!
So in our case subtitles are used for when we can't understand the language, we can hear okay.
