General Chat

By BBC Two's use of subtitles on a Scottish film they are showing at the moment! We don't get subtitles on Eastenders or Coronation St..........so why put them on a Scottish film? Christine

Christine Is it Sweet Sixteen? Zoe

Yeah Zoe it is....

I know Christine - lol but when Pauls nephews got it on dvd they rang me to translate for them lol soooooo funny tho

the first five mins of it was apparently subtitled on the big screen - theres some reason behind it but no-one in the office can remember

I am not sure actually. If the script is like the dialect my father and mother use to tease me, it is so thick it seems like a completely unrecognisable language! Certainly is not related to English at all. But I don't suppose a television programme would be using that would it? My parents come from the north east of Scotland. Abigail

I imagine that any viewers north of York would appreciate sub-titles for Eastenders or Coronation Street ? Len

Well Abigail, now even I'd need subtitles for NE accent! LOL Just wrankles with me, when we are expected to understand all the different Southern accents, but it doesn't apply the other way around! Christine

Thank you Len, my point exactly! Christine

May be they thought we wouldn't understand lol

Hi I put the substitles on for Eastenders as I can't always understand what they are going on about & I only live about 10 miles from where it is filmed!! Penny

When I went up north to college, one of my fellow students said: 'I bet you think the North is just like Coronation Street' I've not got much of an ear for accents. I hadn't the heart to tell her that I'd seen all the shots of rooftops and assumed it was set near London Bridge!

If you go on teletext and press 888 you can get subtitles. As this is a film the director, etc would have added the subtitles, not the broadcaster.

LOL Brenda! Christine

Yes, they are in fits and I am gazing blankly from one to the other! I know what you mean though, I once asked a friend ( a Portsmouth girl) ' are you not hot?' and another friend (a Liverpudlian) had to translate after I had repeated it three times. We were all hysterical. Still dialects are fascinating. Abigail

Hi Daniel, as Zoe said in the cinema the film had subtitles only for the first few minutes...but not for the rest of the film, so it must be a decision taken by the BEEB! Christine

Oh, Well, I'll shut up then :-)

Christine Did you spot the bit in the papers yesterday about an MSP comlaining to the Beeb and raisng the issue at Holyrood Zoe

I too am offended.which programme was it? Perhaps we should complain about it but, then they only send on someone to explain, HOW WRONG YOU ARE'. Deanna

I didnt think of that Brian, perhaps thats why theyve done it, but then why only on the Scottish programmes? Deanna