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1 day agoI find that infuriating, too. Someone told me the reason is that the dubbing and the subtitling are done in parallel from the original material, instead of the subtitling being done from the dubbing text. Regardless, it’s super annoying to miss a word in the spoken dialog and find that the subtitles have a completely different sentence.
That was very informative, thank you! I love Tom Scott’s videos, but somehow missed this one.
The odd thing is that he brings up the obvious question: why do the subtitlers not simply use the dubber’s translation instead of doing their own. He brings up the need in the past for summaries (which could be done from the dubber’s translation, so I don’t see the point), but then doesn’t explain why we still do the same.
It’s particularly odd because streaming brought a Renaissance of dubbing - streaming shows are frequently dubbed, dubbed to a lot of languages, and the dubbing is of high quality. On some streaming services (I think Netflix), the dubbing teams proudly have their own closing cards at the end of each episode. And yet, they continue this strange habit.