Thank You Dopers

Cafe Society
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As more of a lurker on the SDMB I just wanted to thank the fine dopers for some great recommendations I get from Cafe Society. A couple quick examples that caused me to open this thread.

Several months ago there was a discussion on song covers and someone recommended the podcast Coverville. I’ve never looked back and it is now my favourite podcast.

I don’t have cable or watch TV too much. It’s the threads here that got me hooked on Heroes and checking out the online graphic novels

I was also quite clueless whenever anybody mentioned Joss Whedon. I rented Serenity a couple months back and really enjoyed it and just recently picked up the entire Firefly series. I quite enjoy it even if the spoken chinese is so horrendous that my wife couldn’t understand it (she’s Tawainese). She actually watched and enjoyed a couple shows with me and Sci-Fi is definitely not her cup of tea.

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Thanks for confirming something the producers themselves were wondering… whether or not people who spoke chinese were sitting there thinking, “What they hell did he just say???”

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It appears that about half the time she’s able to recognize what they were trying to say although it’s worse than my mangled Mandarin but the remainder she has no clue. I thought maybe they were speaking Catonese but apparently not. I’m able to pick up about 2% of it myself. I like to have the subtitles on when I watch shows but they don’t subtitle any of the Chinese. I wish they did even if it was subtitled in Chinese.