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Why did that one guy have subtitles?


The leader of the rival gang or whatever that they owed money to. This guy gets subtitles yet it's everyone else that I had trouble understanding, at least in the first half hour. This guy was the easiest to understand IMO.

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Hippo had subtitles because he was speaking a hybrid Afrikaans/English slang dialect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans

-chunkiefroth

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Agreed. I don't think the subtitles were necessary; he wasn't hard to understand, at all...






"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"

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Try a hearing aid, you might have more luck.

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I thought it was mostly for humor. It made me laugh...

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Because it's Fender from "Cyborg" is why :-P

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