The thing that annoys me in subs of foreign-language things, is where a very simple or recognisable sentence gets turned into something else. Not in a “localisation” way, where extra context is needed. Just in a weird way.

Audio: Arigatou, @meejle@lemmy.world-san.
Subtitle: Thanks, @meejle@lemmy.world, I really appreciate it.

Audio: Ja.
Subtitle: OK, I’ll see you there!

This seems a lot more common in “official” subs of anime, nordic noir, etc. Fan-subs seem a lot more accurate.

Ben & Jerry’s, Cherry Garcia.

At least we’ll get a delightfully stunted Jony Ive product film out of it.

THE WORST OF TIMES ARE WHEN LAWYERS HAVE TO FORCE THEIR BIGGEST SMILES!!!

We’re deleting ‘doors’ as a feature. They just don’t make sense.

— Melontusk

Friend created. Initials (“MJL”) became word! Makes smile.

There was (maybe still is) a cake shop in Southgate, North London. About a minute from my old flat.

The cakes in the window display rarely changed, if ever.

The guy running it looked like if you imagine the toughest prisoner at a prison, only wearing an apron.

About 50/50 whether the glass would be smashed whenever you walked past.

It was often “open” and had people coming in and out of it at 2-3am when I came back from nights out.

And there was a drive-by shooting right in that area while I lived there, that I always assumed was related. 😅

In-sta-gram

Although I’m only saying that to be contrarian, I do actually agree with you 😬

Squeeze to activate Google Assistant, from the Pixel 2 XL (and maybe others, I don’t remember)

Ohhhhh, OK I get it now.

I always used (and preferred) the official app and wondered why I was the only one haha.

But, I had Reddit Premium until recently, and now I guess AdGuard must be picking up the slack. 😅

Funnily enough @fer0n@lemm.ee does seem to work in the Liftoff app, but I guess there maybe isn’t a standard yet. 😃