Dubtitle
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Dubtitle is a term for a show recorded in which the subtitles are merely transcription
s of the new alternative dialogue
spoken on the dubbed soundtrack
rather than a translation of the original dialogue and was popularized by anime
and kung fu film fans to refer to this practice.
Transcription (linguistics)
Transcription in the linguistic sense is the systematic representation of language in written form. The source can either be utterances or preexisting text in another writing system, although some linguists only consider the former as transcription.Transcription should not be confused with...
s of the new alternative dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people....
spoken on the dubbed soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
rather than a translation of the original dialogue and was popularized by anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
and kung fu film fans to refer to this practice.