Why is it so hard to resist reading subtitles on tv even if we can understand what they are saying?

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I myself find it really hard to not read them and pay attention to the screen even when I’m watching something in my native language and have no issue hearing the dialog.

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Because eventually some parts of the dialog will be inaudible, so if you don’t read everything you will end up going back for what you missed from time to time.

And because sometimes knowing what is being said will let you interpret ambiguous sounds better. Like Yanny vs. Laurel https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/16/611701171/yanny-or-laurel-why-people-hear-different-things-in-that-viral-clip

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