Transcripts

[2cbetter2.livejournal.com]

Hello, I'm relatively new to Jeeves and Wooster (just finished watching Bertie Sets Sail) and I was wondering has anyone posted transcripts of the episode online anywhere by chance? The reason I ask is I am an American and while most of the time I can understand what is being said, sometimes the accents do get in the way

Can anyone help?

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[2cbetter2.livejournal.com]

I wish the DVDs had closed captioning but alas they do not :( which is why I asked if there might be transcripts for the episodes.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Damn. Just to be clear, is it no subtitles *and* no closed captioning? 'Cause that sucks. :-( (Often, when there are no subtitles on a DVD, I can still get closed captioning to work. But I don't have the J&W DVDs to test this.)

[2cbetter2.livejournal.com]

No on the subtitles either. :(

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Damn. Best of luck finding the info you need.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

P.S. Sorry to have been of *no help whatsoever*. <looks humble>

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Hi again. I happened to be doing a search online for jeeves & wooster, and one of the things that came up was a site that rates the subtitles on DVDs. It gave links to the old and re-release versions of The Complete Jeeves & Wooster from England, and apparently *those* have excellent (accurate) subtitles. (Well, the original DVD release did. There was no review yet on the new re-release, but since the cover was the same and it was listed as having English subtitles, I suspect they are the same.)

I wasn't sure if you were ever planning on buying the DVD set (I believe you had rented the eps from Netflix?), but if so, maybe the UK set might be a better choice. The price is about the same (somewhere around 12 pounds), and shipping from Amazon UK and Play.com are both reasonable.

You'll need to have your DVD player set to be Region Free, since UK DVDs are Region 2, but codes or instructions to make your player region-free are usually easy to find online. And if you need it, I have a program that will make your computer DVD player Region Free.

Ah -- after scrolling down, I see you got subtitles from sige_vic. But, just in case, here are the links for that site with recs for UK J&W DVD sets with subtitles.

http://dvd-subtitles.com/jeeves-and-wooster-the-complete-series-1-4-d29321.html

http://dvd-subtitles.com/jeeves-and-wooster-the-complete-series-1-4-d69114.html

[2cbetter2.livejournal.com]

Thank you for researching that but at the moment I am not considering buying the series.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

:-) It was no trouble--I just happened to stumble onto it and saved the urls for myself. I'm glad you were able to get subtitles and links to transcripts! It really does help. I always found when watching Prime Suspect that I *had* to use closed captioning, because the dialogue part of the soundtrack was often overlaid with all the background noises in the scenes. Combine that with the unfamiliar accents, and I could catch about one word in ten without captioning. *g*

[2cbetter2.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you were able to get subtitles and links to transcripts! It really does help.

Indeed it does.

Combine that with the unfamiliar accents, and I could catch about one word in ten without captioning. *g*

The funny thing is you think the upper class accents on J&W wouldn't give me any difficulty in understanding when I am used to trying to understand the general London accents on Doctor Who (so glad I can turn on closed captioning/subtitles with it) but they still do occasionally make me scratch my head as I try to figure out what was said -- well before the subtitles were sent my way that is!

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

I find I can often figure out what they're saying if I'm already familiar with the phrases, but there are tons of '20s British and American slang terms used in J&W (along with British terms I just haven't heard before) that cause difficulty.

It took me quite awhile of watching the occasional British program before I realized that "sussed" was actually the word people were saying -- I couldn't imagine I was hearing that correctly. *g*

Someone in this post (maybe it was you?) was saying something about the differences between Amer and Brit English; I've always heard and liked the phrase "two countries separated by a common language." ;-)

[2cbetter2.livejournal.com]

I find I can often figure out what they're saying if I'm already familiar with the phrases, but there are tons of '20s British and American slang terms used in J&W (along with British terms I just haven't heard before) that cause difficulty.

I gotta say the era slang isn't so bad for me but I can see how it would be a problem.

Someone in this post (maybe it was you?) was saying something about the differences between Amer and Brit English; I've always heard and liked the phrase "two countries separated by a common language." ;-)

Yeah I talked how we in the US speak the same language as they do in England yet there are times we can't understand a word each other is saying. It's quite funny but that's what happens when your cultures seperate at some point. We share a common language and yet we don't - lol and don't even get me started about Australia either.