Date:    Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:58:57 -0500
<br>From:    Grant Barrett  gbarrett[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DFJP.COM 
<br>Subject: RE dubbing
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<br>Guesswork and thoughts on "dubbing":
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<br>1. It's been five years since I worked in radio, but the term "dubbing" is
<br> omnipresent there, to mean "making a copy to magnetic tape." The source media
<br> is irrelevant, as long it's not live. If it's live, you're just taping or
<br> recording it.
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<br>2. I now work in advertising, and my peers seem to use "dubbing" to mean "make
<br> an exact copy from one tape to another" usally referring to video. Side note:
<br> they still use "reel" to indicate an archive of television commercials we've
<br> done, even though they are now stored on half-inch or three-quarter video
<br> cassettes rather than film reels.
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<br>3. Every dual cassette deck I know has a manual or buttons that use "dub" or
<br> "dubbing"  to indicate the process of copying one tape to another.
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<br>4. Reggae music has an interesting use of the word "dubbing" to mean something
<br> like "freestyle rhyming over a beat track or repeated musical theme." This is
<br> more likely to be found in "dancehall reggae" and "ragamuffin." See the works
<br> of Lee Scratch Perry whose "dub beats" are hard to top.
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<br>5. I have a feeling (whoop! whoop! guess alert!) that we're not talking about a
<br> case of back-borrowing here. If we could get ahold of a user's manual from any
<br> dual-deck magnetic tape device from the early days of the technology, I suspect
<br> we will find the word "dub" in some form there.
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<br>Grant Barrett
<br>gbarrett[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dfjp.com
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<br>Date: 3/23/98 8:25 AM
<br>To: Grant Barrett
<br>From: Daniel Long
<br>Isn't the word "dubbing" used these days in English to mean "recording
<br>from tape to tape"?
<br>When I came to Japan 15 years ago, I remember people using the word
<br>"dabingu" in this way, and my telling them that we didn't use the word
<br>that way in English, that we used it only in the sense of "dubbing"
<br>foreign films, etc.   But it seems that this new meaning is now common
<br>in English.  When did this usage first come about in English?  Could it
<br>be a semantic back-borrowing because of the Japanese influence of the
<br>recording device industry?  Any ideas?
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<br>Danny Long
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