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June 20, 2008

How Do You Say 'Procrastination' In Spanish?

There's a website called jaman.com (via PopWatch) that lets you create your own subtitles for a curated selection of clips from foreign films. It's pretty much more useful than Google. Looks like we're going to break the record for the cost in productivity to businesses by non-work-related web use in Q2. Here is my first attempt:

I'm basically the best at dialogue. Hollywood stopped asking me to write all the screenplays because my characters were TOO three-dimensional. At a certain point people just want to see a movie, you know, and not have a mirror held up to their lives.

Create your own here.

Posted by Gabe at 4:49 PM in
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That's awesome. I'm going to be sending out a bunch of these to my friends. I've already sent a link of my first try, but hopefully I'll get better. http://www.jaman.com/a/download/?f=sub_player_share&clip=08zXTFnmijzw

Posted by: ryanspacey profile link at 06/20/08 5:12 PM | Reply
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jim

the phonetic angle is nicely done.

Posted by: jim profile link in reply to ryanspacey's comment at 06/20/08 7:01 PM | Reply
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Work of art.

Posted by: TigerMachine profile link at 06/20/08 10:38 PM | Reply
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Gabe, that was a really fun one. Good job.

Posted by: Amy D at 06/21/08 6:26 AM | Reply
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever...

(I do hope that guy left the cabdriver a nice tip.)

Posted by: Josh Rosen at 06/21/08 9:38 AM | Reply
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By "tip" I assume you mean "jar of urine."

Posted by: milar at 06/21/08 4:35 PM | Reply
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