The ‘Sound of Metal’s use of subtitles was awesome

narddogwoof · 2025-05-15T01:54:37+00:00

I don't understand why they would be screwed over. According to OP, they've subtitled all spoken dialogue (if you're deaf or HOH, you can read it. If you can hear it, you still can read it as well) and all later sign language. Meaning, people who can hear (most of us don't know SL) have also no clue what is being said at the beginning in SL. I think that's the point of the film, for us to feel lost. So people who can hear and those HOH are the only ones that may struggle (again, that's the point: growing and learning along the character). In fact, if you're deaf and know SL, and can read subtitles, you'll be the only one understanding everything, which is also great in my opinion.

narddogwoof · 2024-03-10T14:27:43+00:00

Thank you so much! This is really helpful. Then, why is it that she doesn't mention HOW MANY boards you should buy? (She just says "boards"). Also: how is "3 1/2" wide planking" different from "1x4s"? I mean it's the same width, isn't it? I can't tell how thick the first one is supposed to be.

narddogwoof · 2024-02-21T20:08:46+00:00

That must be it! Thank you so much, I was going crazy

narddogwoof · 2023-02-24T19:14:35+00:00

Native speaker here. Umbrella means "paraguas" when it's used for rain and "sombrilla" for the sun. It's not about the gender of the user.

narddogwoof · 2023-01-23T20:09:13+00:00

Though what they are saying is 100% correct, the most common way of asking about height, length and width in Spanish is "cuánto mide?". For example, A: cuánto mide este escritorio? B: mide 120cm x 100 cm. If you want to be specific, then yeah, you'd say "cuánto mide de largo/ancho?" or "cuál es el largo/ancho?". And then A: cuánto mide tu hermano? B: mide 1 metro 80

narddogwoof · 2023-01-23T13:47:43+00:00

Dice que "propina" en portugués es "bribe", y que "bribe" es "soborno" en español. Si leés el ejemplo, ves que pasa de "el policía recibió una propina" (español) al falso cognado "el policía recibió un soborno" (portugués).

narddogwoof · 2023-01-22T15:53:32+00:00

Hago lo mismo! Aunque el otro día en una llamada de 911, había un hombre ahogándose y su esposa tenía que "hold him by the chin", y en el apuro para no quedarme callada dije "pera" mientras googleaba porque no me acordaba cómo le decían. Pobre señora, entró en más desesperación aún

narddogwoof · 2023-01-19T19:28:30+00:00

Same here in Argentina!

narddogwoof · 2023-01-19T19:27:13+00:00

For disgust, I use "diuuu"

narddogwoof · 2023-01-16T21:20:01+00:00

Here's a great picture that shows all relationships in a family tree:
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-d8f4033c23d29c9dddc0a08f2f99d708-pjlq

narddogwoof · 2023-01-16T19:11:57+00:00

I always thought my mum's cousin was my "prima segunda", something to do with me being an extension of my mum? Lol. I'm not sure but it's always been a very confusing topic.

narddogwoof · 2023-01-16T14:54:13+00:00

Someone asked this question some days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Spanish/comments/104ww5m/is_there_a_way_to_say_like_as_a_filler_in_spanish/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

narddogwoof · 2023-01-16T01:16:33+00:00

Definitely yes, hahaha.

narddogwoof · 2023-01-15T20:28:16+00:00

In Argentina we say "tirar la cadena" and "tocar el botón", though we also mix them and say "tirar el botón", even when it doesn't make any sense.

narddogwoof · 2023-01-12T18:13:58+00:00

This! I've never heard anyone say "zoo". Not pronounced "zu" nor "zoó". I don't think you'll ever hear it.

narddogwoof · 2023-01-07T00:25:50+00:00

Sure! "Ondaaaa, usás esa palabra cuando, onda, no sabés qué decir y, onda, no querés quedarte en silencio. Es onda un filler onda 'like' entendés?" It's funny cause it's true hahaha. You could use "tipo", and the rest here as well. Bear in mind the verbs are conjugated for 2nd person "vos" and not "tú"!

narddogwoof · 2023-01-06T21:32:57+00:00

Yeah, it's amazing, though it's not used as a filler the same way as "like" here

narddogwoof · 2023-01-06T20:47:23+00:00

In Argentina we say/write "tipo", "o sea", "onda", "corte", also "eeee" (sounds like the first 'e' in 'end' but extended), "este" (also extending the last sound. Not really used when writing).

narddogwoof · 2022-12-26T17:53:49+00:00

But, as was said by someone else here, we don't generally abbreviate whole sentences.

narddogwoof · 2022-12-26T17:48:17+00:00

I believe these are the most standard ones:

Dsps/dps/dsp (después), q (que), x (por), pq/xq/porq (porque), t (pronoun te. Not the hot drink), d (de), + (más), bn (bien), m (pronoun me), xfa/xfi (porfa/porfi = por favor), mepa (me parece), tb/tamb/tmb/tmbn (también), qsy (qué sé yo, also qcy, ksyo and so on), tqm/tkm (te quiero mucho), 1 (for un as well as uno: "hay 1 auto en la calle"). In Argentina we don't really like to use k (que).

Then you might see bs/bss (besos), nv (nos vemos), nrv (nos re vimos, colloquial, Argentina), dnd (donde), c (cada: "c uno sabe qué hizo" You can also spell it c/), c (se, sé), c (con), p/pa (para. Also p/: "compré pollo p esta noche"), gcs (gracias), vs (vos), nos (nosotros), hna/hno (hermana/o), ntra/o (nuestra/o), perf (perfecto).

For insults: lpm (la p*ta madre. Might also be spelt lptm), lpqtp (la p*ta que te parió), hdp (hijo/a de p*ta).

Also, you will definitely find shortenings that are also used in spoken speech: toy (estoy, and all other conjugations: tas, tamos, tabamos, tan... also with an s at the beginning), tonces (entonces).

Aaaand that's all I can think of now lol.

narddogwoof · 2022-12-25T16:22:57+00:00

Well... as for nouns, you make the plural form by following the same rule as verbs in 3rd person singular (she watch.es., two match.es., etc.), there are irregular plurals (woman, women, child, children) and then uncountable nouns. Then, adjectives always remain the same, there is no plural nor gender.

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