primitives discuss closed-captioning

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=381x441

Oh my.

Somebody disturbed the cobwebs congesting the deaf-and-hard-of-hearing forum on Skins's island, but only a tiny little bit.

I really wish the primitives would hang out there more.

By the way, apparently the new version of Skins's island is going to omit some of the smaller forums, or so it seems, because already I've seen pleas in two of them, asking the primitives to respond to some sort of poll to keep them on the upcoming new and unimproved Skins's island--the household hints forum and the eBay and garage sales forum specifically.

pscot  (1000+ posts)        Sun Nov-14-10 07:17 PM
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closed captioning on TV is as wierdly surreal as my own dwindling hearing.

Well then, learn to live without it.

Just watch it; there's plenty of communication going on.  What comes out of people's mouths isn't the only communication.

Rhiannon12866   (1000+ posts)        Sun May-22-11 09:34 PM
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1. I agree with you... There seem to be a lot of mistakes.

I'm not sure how they do it, type as fast as they can while someone's speaking? That could explain it, but there has to be another method that would be more accurate.

franksolich first realized that closed-captioning is inadequate, even worthless, when he used to watch college football.....on ABC, a very long time ago (back when only three games a week were allowed to be broadcast).

DavidDvorkin  (1000+ posts)        Mon May-23-11 06:05 PM
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2. It's made TV enjoyable again for us

I'm increasingly reluctant to go to movies because of the lack of captioning. I'd rather wait for a movie to show up on cable so that I can watch it with captioning.

Typical complaints of primitives who once had hearing, and then lost it, or of primitives with partial hearing.

They can't get along without something resembling that which they once knew; they can't adapt.

I'd really like for a born-deaf-and-known-no-other-sort-of-life primitive to hang around Skins's island--a soulmate from the other side of the aisle, I guess--but I've never seen one.

[ChuckJ]

frank, I don't know why this reminded me of Spanish class, but it did so I'm going to do like vesta and tell a story.

We had a wonderful lady as a Spanish teacher. She was a legal immigrant and Spanish was her native language, but she spoke English extremely well. During the first quarter of first year Spanish she played a video of a cartoon that was in Spanish. Since it was the first quarter of the class none of us really knew any Spanish so she acted as the translator. A cartoon character would speak and she would translate. Near the end of the film a character spoke, she translated, a rooster crowed, and she cockadoodledooed. The whole class began laughing. She didn't know what was so funny. Finally someone asked her if the rooster had crowed in Spanish or English. Then it dawned on her.