Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for August 31, 2023

Ah, speed reading…..

you can’t argue with that ….

Really helps with the telenovelas, at my age I am now learning some Spanish — but very little.

Way to go, Skyler. Alwasy good to keep an ‘open’ mind.

But the closed captions are in Japanese!

After he’s done reading the captions,he’ll be reading TV guide.

That’s clever, Skyler. You may now enjoy a week of no TV.

We increased my godson’s reading speed by turning on captions.

We have started to put the closed-captions on any movie we stream. Nowadays, dialogs are muffled or slurred and sound effects super loud. We can’t understand half the dialog. I’ve gotten to LIKE having the captions on!

Same here!

And I thought the hearing issue was just me!! Thanks for your post – makes me feel better this AM…

Not a bad idea. You learn correct spelling. Also good while learning a different language.

I put captions on because most actors “act” and I can’t understand a word they are saying. And also for the Brit stuff, no one can understanding what they are saying…

an absolute necessity if the “English” is British

I now also use closed-captions any time I can, not just to better understand the hard-to-hear dialog, but get a lot of other bits of interesting information. That would include impossible to hear announcements on a P.A., or even the lyrics of a song in the background. Often, the name of a song being played is also stated. I might want to buy the music, so that makes things easier to figure out what it was. And good movie/TV makers use very specific music to enhance the story, so more knowledge is helpful.

I realize that the average person does not care to know much of the details about the movie or TV show they are watching. These same people have no problem with going to the refrigerator without pausing the show.

Some comments seem to not realize that DEAF people need such captions. So, when you see a description of the sound or music, one should probably not be so narrow-minded about why such descriptions exist. Also, I like to at least know the INTENTION of the showmaker’s mood in what is happening (or going to happen) through the music, including the description of the music.

If you just like a minimal experience with TV/movies, just keep captions off, and make sure you go to your frig and toilet a lot without pausing what you are watch. :-)

What I find funny when watching a foreign film with English subtitles. The actor will be talking for 30 seconds in their language and the subtitle says “I left.”

I find a lot of closed captions miss part of the dialog and I’ve seen some where they changed words or even whole sentences

Clever!