Barbara J. Hamby

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Closed Captioning

Recently I’ve been using the closed captioning on the television during the brief times that I watch it. I highly recommend it as an exercise to keep an aging brain agile.  The quality of much of it is so poor that it’s a real challenge to imagine what the voice actually said, when you read the caption. I assume that some of those captions are created by computers and some by dyslexics.

I have tried reading the captions with and without sound. Without sound it is better brain exercise--with it, I’m sometimes amazed at the differences. I think I wrote recently about “pee trail,” that substituted for the word “betrayal.” That’s the most outrageous example I’ve encountered.

Anyway, I consider closed captioning one of the many opportunities offered to senior citizens today.

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