Saturday, March 24, 2018

Helpful closed captioning

It wouldn't have been realistic to expect Animal Planet or any other network to provide English translations of animals' speech.  Thus, on a program like "Sunrise Earth," closed captioning often read like this:
Human viewers would helpfully learn when animals were grunting or squeaking that way.  Cat viewers, such as Sammy in April 2008, however, were content just to hear and see the animals.