r/HBOMAX • u/SadCryptographer1827 • 10h ago

Question Why does The Hunt for Saddam caption Arabic as “[speaking global language]”?

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Has anyone else noticed the bizarre “speaking global language” captions in High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam?

I’m watching this show (for some fucking reason) on HBO Max, and whenever Iraqi characters are speaking Arabic, the English closed captions say [speaking global language] instead of [speaking Arabic]

Is [global language] some sort of generic placeholder used in captioning software? And nobody picked up on the error because it only happens like 700 times in the first episode so far? In context of this particular show it is extremely fucking cringe

Arabic is one of the most widely spoken languages on Earth. It feels reductive and weird

Am I missing some technical reason captions would be delivered this way?

To be fair if this bothers me maybe I should lay off the hoo ah bullshit streaming shows, but for some reason I’ve decided to watch all of them. I like mainlining propaganda fuckin sue me

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r/HBOMAX • u/gamersunny • 13h ago

Question Hbomax showing this is uncharted territory

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Getting this message and it mentions its not available in my region. I'm in US, billing is active, suddenly happening today. Why?

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