[...] At home, we watch the TV with subtitles. Mainly because of impaired hearing, as you might expect. But I can recommend it to the uninitiated – partly for the not-so-occasional mishaps that can be vastly more entertaining / enlightening / truthful than the spoken word… (must say tho that the quality and coverage of subtitling in the UK is these days quite superb – keep up the good work). But i reckon the experience has other benefits, and suggests an interesting insight, as I’ll explain. Let me set the scene: [...]