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Tune it out

Background vs. Foreground, where's your focus? 👁️

Tune it out
Image by stokpic from Pixabay

The (men’s) Tour de France finished yesterday and given that we’re currently residing in the French-speaking part of Belgium, the official post-race interviews—conducted in the lingua franca of English—are live-translated into French by the studio commentators.

It’s funny, because I’m used to hearing it the other way round at home: a rider gets asked a question in their native tongue, and the British commentator talks over their incomprehensible (to me) answer.

This way round, it’s the English answer I want to hear that’s being drowned out by an over-dub.