Movie subtitles can annoy--as visual clutter--when you don't need them, but they are a godsend for the deaf and anyone watching a foreign language film. Now a devoted group of 200,000 volunteer video subbers on Viki.com have elevated the humble subtitle to an art form. They spin lines that span the planet in 210 distinct tongues, from ABC (Aymara, Basque, Chamorro) to XYZ (Xhosa, Yiddish, Zulu). Not done for a dime, but as a labor of love, these video subbers' painstaking work connects cultures ...
Movie subtitles can annoy--as visual clutter--when you don't need them, but they are a godsend for the deaf and anyone watching a foreign language film. Now a devoted group of 200,000 volunteer video subbers on Viki.com have elevated the humble subtitle to an art form. They spin lines that span the planet in 210 distinct tongues, from ABC (Aymara, Basque, Chamorro) to XYZ (Xhosa, Yiddish, Zulu). Not done for a dime, but as a labor of love, these video subbers' painstaking work connects cultures ...
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