Have you never watched an English dubbed version of some of the classic Hong Kong produced Kung Fu movies? At times an entire paragraph of dialog gets reduced to a "hmmmmmm." John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> > Funny thing about that is that in the Spanish channel I get OTA here, > Telefutura, there are the same limited number of dubbing voices, and > they sound very similar to the Italian ones. They have this artificial > cadence, very unnatural, that you get used to when watching dubbed > movies. Sort of like, "it only sounds that way in the movies." I think > what happens is that in attempting to keep in sync with the English > dialog, they have to stretch out the words in the dubbed-in language. > (This was especially true with John Wayne movies!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.