Irrelevant sidebar: On last night's "Revenge," Nolan referred to Emily watching the "closed caption channel" via her spycam, instead of "closed circuit channel." I fear my generation has now lost another image.
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Jim Ellwanger <train...@ellwanger.tv> wrote: > On Nov 5, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Brad Beam wrote: > >> <cc> >> BRAD [Exasperated]: Get over it. >> </cc> > > > Normally you wouldn't caption something like "[Exasperated]," especially if > your facial expression is visible on camera. As was said during my days at > the closed-captioning factory, "They're deaf, not stupid." > > "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" had a bit called "Visible Closed Captions," > in which they did fake open-captioning of an intentionally bad desk piece, > with the "captioner" making fun of the piece, and Conan, throughout. > > The real closed-captioners would not caption the bit, and thus, it meant that > the deaf wouldn't get to read much of what Conan was really saying. That's > the kind of thing deaf people can be humorless about, for good reason, but > apparently, no one ever complained. Either there were zero deaf people > watching, or they actually got the joke in this case. > > Incidentally, this piece from Mental Floss a few days ago is one of the best > explanations I've seen of sign language, complete with screen shots from > Bloomberg's press conferences: > http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/149593 > > -- > Jim Ellwanger <train...@ellwanger.tv> > <http://www.ellwanger.tv> > > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
