English subtitles..
Jun 10th 2009, 3:26 pm
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English subtitles..
Really needed for The Apprentice (UK)?? Is Alan Sugar's accent really that hard to understand? BBC America obviously feel that help is needed for, well I guess the Americans to decipher what he is on about 
No one else in the show warranted subtitles, it seems.. just him!
No one else in the show warranted subtitles, it seems.. just him!
Jun 10th 2009, 3:41 pm
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Re: English subtitles..
My Step Mother in Law can't understand somethings I say.
When I was over in England with the Mrs and was talking to friends of mine I slipped into a local accent and she was lost on allot of what I said.
When I was over in England with the Mrs and was talking to friends of mine I slipped into a local accent and she was lost on allot of what I said.
Jun 10th 2009, 3:45 pm
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Re: English subtitles..
Really needed for The Apprentice (UK)?? Is Alan Sugar's accent really that hard to understand? BBC America obviously feel that help is needed for, well I guess the Americans to decipher what he is on about No one else in the show warranted subtitles, it seems.. just him!
No one else in the show warranted subtitles, it seems.. just him!
Jun 10th 2009, 3:46 pm
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Re: English subtitles..
London. He has a not so strong accent.
Jun 10th 2009, 3:49 pm
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Re: English subtitles..
I know some accents are hard to understand - he just doesn't strike me as hard to understand - In fact others in the show were probably more worthy of subtitles - just cracked me up!
Jun 10th 2009, 3:56 pm
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Jun 10th 2009, 3:57 pm
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Re: English subtitles..
Really needed for The Apprentice (UK)?? Is Alan Sugar's accent really that hard to understand? BBC America obviously feel that help is needed for, well I guess the Americans to decipher what he is on about No one else in the show warranted subtitles, it seems.. just him!
No one else in the show warranted subtitles, it seems.. just him!I saw it for the first time last night and wondered the same thing! Its seesm like they used to add subtitles just for scots, but now its anyone who doesnt have a posh newsreader accent. I find it hilarious!
Jun 10th 2009, 5:49 pm
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Re: English subtitles..
TLC did it during the week. The show was "Tallest Children in the World" or something like that and they had a few British cases in it. Usually it is for the Scottish 
or Geordie accent but to do that for Alan Sugar is pretty hard to fathom. Although saying that, maybe his words were getting muffled by his Jeff Lynne/DLT facial hair?
or Geordie accent but to do that for Alan Sugar is pretty hard to fathom. Although saying that, maybe his words were getting muffled by his Jeff Lynne/DLT facial hair?
Jun 10th 2009, 5:52 pm
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I didn't know they were showing The Apprectice on BBC America. Cool!
If you have a few minutes to spare, this is quite funny:
If you have a few minutes to spare, this is quite funny:
Jun 10th 2009, 5:53 pm
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They did it for Gene Hunt in Ashes to Ashes too.
Jun 10th 2009, 6:06 pm
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I didn't know they were showing The Apprectice on BBC America. Cool!
If you have a few minutes to spare, this is quite funny:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yxi6QDwQyLU
If you have a few minutes to spare, this is quite funny:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yxi6QDwQyLU
Very good!
Jun 10th 2009, 6:13 pm
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Re: English subtitles..
Really needed for The Apprentice (UK)?? Is Alan Sugar's accent really that hard to understand? BBC America obviously feel that help is needed for, well I guess the Americans to decipher what he is on about No one else in the show warranted subtitles, it seems.. just him!
No one else in the show warranted subtitles, it seems.. just him!Some of Sugar's funniest quips
when stenders first aired over here, apparently they published a dictionary specially for the viewers.
Jun 10th 2009, 6:17 pm
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try listening to it with the SAP setting...
Some of Sugar's funniest quips
when stenders first aired over here, apparently they published a dictionary specially for the viewers.
Some of Sugar's funniest quips
when stenders first aired over here, apparently they published a dictionary specially for the viewers.
Jun 10th 2009, 6:59 pm
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My Daughter had to present something about England in class this week - so she had them do a quiz about English v American words.. Boot = Trunk Biscuit = cookie etc... but she finished it off by teaching them some cockney rhyming slang.. she said it was hysterical listening to what some of them were coming up with. It must have seemed very bizarre to them
Jun 10th 2009, 7:25 pm
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They had to for the froggie Raymond Blanc in the Restaurant as people kept complaining they couldn't understand the people 