When I’m writing I usually have the radio, a podcast or the TV playing in the background. If it’s the radio or a podcast playing, I sometimes listen to it. At other times I know it’s there but I tune it out. My radio intake is usually GHR and sometimes a Welsh or a Spanish radio station. It’s the same kind of situation if the TV is on – sometimes I watch it, and (depending on what’s on) sometimes I don’t watch it.
I’m currently not watching an American TV show called The Lincoln Lawyer. It’s OK – not brilliant – but watching it in a ‘moving wallpaper in the background’ kind of way is alright. The thing about this TV show is the cast occasionally lapse into Spanish because the lead character is Mexican and the show is based in LA where a lot of Latinos and Latinas hang out. But when they do lapse into Spanish it isn’t Spanish. It’s not what is spoken in Spain. And that’s an annoyance. One of the people who taught me Spanish was a Colombian. She spoke Spanish beautifully. I’ve heard Mexicans speak their native language and they too speak Spanish perfectly. So the corruption of Latin American Spanish into American Spanglish seems to be an American thing, just like they mess up English.
That’s just weird. They should just go and take over Canada, then they could learn to murder French too.
We watch a programme on Netflix, called SWAT.
It too is set in LA and often features a lot of Spanish (or Spanglish – I don’t know) dialogue.
Annoyingly, when they have this Latino dialogue, they don’t put any subtitles up, so we have no idea what is being said.
In an episode last week, there was so much Spanish dialogue, that I actually paused the program, switched on permanent subtitles and then we started watching it again. Now we had subtitles for everything. Even more annoying.
Would have been handy if you’d popped round for a cuppa that day.
Adios
I started to watch SWOT/SWAT a couple of weeks ago. Then I fell into The Recruit and put everything else on hold until I’d polished that off. Maybe I’ll pick up on it again while I wait for them to get their fingers out and make S3 of The Recruit
I have just one thing to say about this topic… Allo Allo, this is Night’awk calling.
*checks time of day*
Good Moaning.