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Wheee! Millennium boxed set arrived. Pretty pretty pretty. ^_^

Trying to look at picture rather than decipher the Japanese subtitles. Except, hey, I just learned how to write 'kilometer.'

It's like the time I saw All That Jazz in Paris and I kept reading the French subtitles and mentally worrying at them when they didn't match the English. Except I could actually read the French. So it's not like that time at all. Never mind.

All That Jazz is called Et la Spectacle Commence in French. Roughly, It's Showtime, Folks.

I thought you needed to know that.

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It's like the time I saw All That Jazz in Paris and I kept reading the French subtitles and mentally worrying at them when they didn't match the English. Except I could actually read the French. So it's not like that time at all. Never mind.

*g* Exactement. I know what you mean (not that I can read any foreign language beyond a word or two), just from English films. The subtitling in English for Fellowship of the Ring doesn't always match the actual dialogue. Same for Big Eden, I seem to recall. (I find that with my hearing slowly deteriorating, just like my father's and grandmother's before me, it's great to have the ability to turn on the English subtitles on DVD's -- no missing bits then, or having to rewind back and cup my ear to figure out what's been said. I find the volume on a lot of videotapes and DVD's doesn't go loud enough.)

All That Jazz is called Et la Spectacle Commence in French. Roughly, It's Showtime, Folks.

I thought you needed to know that.

We did need to know that. Our lives would be incomplete otherwise. I wouldn't have known to translate that into it's non-literal meaning -- I'd've thought "And The Show Begins" (which one doesn't really have to know French, except maybe for "et", to get. Speaking of this, the other day at my part time job, where most of the people are fairly literate, I got a name on my list that was "Lewis E. Clark" and I was joking that the "E." must stand for "et". Nobody got it. *grumble* At least they laughed about the name -- they got that much).