subtitle
suhb tahy tuhl
- n translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen
- n secondary or explanatory title
- v supply (a movie) with subtitles
- It made him a best-selling author, of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (a book whose subtitle cued Fox News to sue him, unsuccessfully .
- Both this and the subtitle, "an account in words and pictures," rather than "a novel," clearly point towards straight autobiography.
- There are logical rules as well, such as finishing a subtitle when a character stops speaking and not extending it over a cut, which can be disorienting.