[MPlayer-users] Re: Dumping CC subtitles
D Richard Felker III
dalias at aerifal.cx
Sun Jun 1 07:26:32 CEST 2003
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 08:38:17PM -0500, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> ephemeron at softhome.net wrote:
> >You've had a bad day, right? Please look at what I really wrote
> >above. Even in my grammatically flawed English, I wasn't telling
> >*YOU* to RTFM. *I* was referring to myself ("all I have to do").
>
> No, I wasn't even in a bad mood; I just misunderstood you. I'm very
> sorry for jumping to conclusions. I was too defensive. I read your
> response several times, but I still got the wrong idea. I'll be more
> careful next time. We really need the <sarcasm> tag; there just aren't
> enough clues in prose to infer the tone of the speaker. Please forgive
> me for jumping to conclusions.
>
> It reminds me of a Simpsons episode in which Homer is angry at his boss
> and dictates a nasty letter in a sarcastic tone. When read in a normal
> tone, however, the letter sounds perfectly amicable except for one last
> sentence, which was composed by Bart. I'm sure the Simpsons fans will
> remember the episode.
>
> By the way, did you mean that there are websites with just subtitles in
> easy usable formats? That would be convenient.
Yep. Someone posted a rather thorough list of such sites a few days
ago. The one I'm familiar with is dvd.box.sk.
Rich
More information about the MPlayer-users
mailing list