narl loop sair momoph reet reet seer pute narfenging …
Posted on January 10th, 2006
Was watching a new ep of Dirty Jobs today with close captions turned on. I still am not sure why I always watch tv with captions on - I think it has to do with Law & Order: Criminal Intent being really quiet compared to the ads. Anyhoo, it became clear during the episode that the captions were being typed live, since they started and stopped like live shows do and I would at times notice incorrectly typed captions being erased and re-typed. I wonder why they don’t just pre-caption it? I had a good laugh when host Mike Rowe said some cowboy gibberish like ‘yippie kai-yai-yay’ and the captioning just kinda paused after writing ‘yippi’ … then a few seconds later, wrote ‘kiyayay’ after a false-starts.
This is about as funny as a transcript for a CSI episode where a tape recording is backwards, transcribed as “narl loop sair momoph reet reet seer pute narfenging …” yuh huh.
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1. Meili | January 11th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
closed captioning is funny. transcribers (the people who type it) have a heck of a job.. especially when it comes to local news, its totally off.
Closed caption can also be a bit slow.
2. Cy | January 20th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
Sometimes our CC messes up when anyone with an accent speaks. It’s really quite hilarious! :3
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