Can't they get it right? These silly subtitlers, these homonym humiliators, these priests at the gate of google? It's Laugharne, not Larne, you posterior orifices!
Oh, my brain dead dears........
I've noticed other subtitling on ITV not being up to scratch lately - last night it was "Pass it hear" on Corrie. They also seem to take more liberties with dialogue than the BBC, although I don't use subs often enough to be sure of that.
Meanwhile, on the BBC, I've seen subtitles
correct
an actor's mis-speaking of his lines on Holby City (some medical term where he swapped a couple of consonants around, I think it was).
My favourite subtitling moment was from an episode of Eastenders, when Pat was on her way out. She was only coughing and not yet at death's door, but the subtitles gave it as "Pat croaks."
Subtitles are a superb method of judging the current level of appreciation of grammar/spelling. The like of "Tow the line" instead of "Toe the line" are increasingly common. The news programmes are not immune by any stretch of the imagination. Love the "Pat croaks" btw. Pity it was wasted on Eastenders. The premier newspapers, such as the Observer and Sunday times are certainly prone to more than the odd homonym.
That actually appears more in print than in subtitling. It still doesn't excuse "Larne" in a local programme. Homonyms are frequent in print journals, no newspaper is immune.
Subtitles are one thing, and excusable, given they are often generated from speech recognition devices, but I understand Sky News had the following as a breaking news caption on Sunday:
BRITISH WITH DRAWAL
Subtitles are one thing, and excusable, given they are often generated from speech recognition devices, but I understand Sky News had the following as a breaking news caption on Sunday:
BRITISH WITH DRAWAL
A BBC News strap earlier this year, around the time of the D-Day anniversary, had World War II typed in shorthand as '
WW11
'
Subtitles are one thing, and excusable, given they are often generated from speech recognition devices, but I understand Sky News had the following as a breaking news caption on Sunday:
BRITISH WITH DRAWAL
A BBC News strap earlier this year, around the time of the D-Day anniversary, had World War II typed in shorthand as '
WW11
'
Which of course would be no problem with Gill Sans's default numeral "1".
Subtitles are one thing, and excusable, given they are often generated from speech recognition devices, but I understand Sky News had the following as a breaking news caption on Sunday:
BRITISH WITH DRAWAL
A BBC News strap earlier
this year
, around the time of the D-Day anniversary, had World War II typed in shorthand as '
WW11
'
Which of course would be no problem with Gill Sans's default numeral "1".
The current astons don't use Gill... Are you trapped in a previous era?
