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Hello,

On the tv channel rt.com, I've red :

Talks in Minks being dubbed 'last chance' to reach peace deal for Ukraine.

In this sentence what is the meaning of 'dubbed'?

Thank you.

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[+4] - contrex - 02/11/2015The previous posters have, I suggest, missed the point. There is an older meaning of 'dub', predating modern sound recording. The sentence is clearly using the word in that older sense: Give an...

@milimi,

The phrase dubbed means when a (foreign) language broadcast is translating and you see the language in text or hear the other language audibly.

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@milimi,

Here is a scene from Friends, badly dubbed into British.

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@Ragman,

Ragman wrote:

The phrase dubbed means when a (foreign) language broadcast is translating and you see the language in text or hear the other language audibly.

More broadly, dubbing means...

...Mixing, or re-recording, is a post-production process used in film making and video production, in which additional or supplementary recordings are "mixed" with original production sound to create the finished soundtrack.

“You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.” Henry Dean Stanton

“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is WHAT WE DO.” John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

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@milimi,

The previous posters have, I suggest, missed the point. There is an older meaning of 'dub', predating modern sound recording. The sentence is clearly using the word in that older sense:

Give an name or nickname to (someone or something)

"the media dubbed anorexia “the slimming disease.”

synonyms: nickname, call, name, label, christen, term, tag, entitle, style

The talks are being dubbed (called, termed, described as) "last chance" talks.

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@contrex,

So I did all that Friends dubbing for nothing?

I had to hire a recording studio and everything.

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In this context, "dubbed" clearly means "called".

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I'm halfway through dubbing it into Russian. The recording team want to go home.

I need a definitive answer here.

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@Lordyaswas,

Did they go home to Minks?

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@Ragman,

One has a ferret, I think.

Or it could have been a bad tempered rabbit.

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@Lordyaswas,

ferret...across the Mersey?

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@Lordyaswas,

Lordyaswas wrote:

I'm halfway through dubbing it into Russian. The recording team want to go home.

In Soviet Russia, TV program dubs you!

(sorry, I couldn't resist!)

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

The previous posters have, I suggest, missed the point. There is an older meaning of 'dub', predating modern sound recording. The sentence is clearly using the word in that older sense:

Give an name or nickname to (someone or something)

"the media dubbed anorexia “the slimming disease.”

synonyms: nickname, call, name, label, christen, term, tag, entitle, style

The talks are being dubbed (called, termed, described as) "last chance" talks.

maxdancona wrote:

In this context, "dubbed" clearly means "called".

I concur with these two posts.

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