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How Subtitles Took Over TV - The Atlantic

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Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 17:52 This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. The first time it happened , I assumed it was a Millennial thing. Our younger neighbors had come over with their kids and a projector for backyard movie night— Clueless , I think, or maybe The Goonies . “Oh,” I said as the opening scene began, “you left the subtitles on.” “Oh,” the husband said, “we always leave the subtitles on.” Now, I don’t like to think of myself as a snob—snobs

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