Captioning Atrocities Of The Day

We happen to have Amazon Prime, and we’ve been watching it via a TiVo unit. We stumbled across Great Greek Myths, and we’ve just been laughing our way through it. Not for the content, but for the consistently awful hash of a captioning effort. We don’t know if it’s being done by a computer tool of some sort, or some poor translator who doesn’t know English. Some of it’s consistently wrong, such as Thebes translated as Thieves except for once, while more difficult Greek names tend to be more variable.

And then there’s the occasional exclamation which correlates with nothing at all, such as “Hermes, No!”

Quite the thing for something prerecorded.

Bookmark the permalink.

About Hue White

Former BBS operator; software engineer; cat lackey.

Comments are closed.