••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Monday, February 27, 2006

more on screwy captions

i think computers closed caption typists use must be programmed to enter frequently-used phrases automatically to speed up the job.

bad idea.

yesterday on c-span2 i heard an interviewed author say something like: teheran sees itself as a hedge against american strategy.

but the closed caption said: teheran sees itself as a healthcare provider against american strategy.

i quoted from memory, so i might not've gotten it exactly, but the main difference is what it was, so i think you see what i mean.

the captions very often have mistakes, and the typos often make the dialogue unintelligible to hearing-impaired viewers or even reverse the meaning by adding or omitting a negative.

it doesn't happen just on noncommercial tv. i've seen plenty of ads with messed up closed captions, including political ads.

you'd think sponsors and candidates would want deaf viewers to be able to read their messages, wouldn't you?

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