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Innovation Or Irritation?
Yesterday, my cellphone pinged with a random text message. "Hi, this is macklang, sunritch Chrysler." Even as I type that sentence the WDC program is angrily underlining two of those words in red. I know, I know. I noticed the grievous misspellings, too. The message originated from a local car dealership, Mac Lang's in Sundridge. Apparently, a zealous car salesman wished to inform me of a three-day sale. Not interested, but the errors caught my eye and piqued my interest/consternation. I forwarded the sad attempt at a text to my son, Christopher, who works in the body shop of this establishment. He immediately responded. "That's terrible. I wonder how many other customers are laughing at this. There's a new sales manager guy. Gonna have to bring it up at work tomorrow, that's embarrassing." I replied, "Happy to help! Kinda important to spell a business name and its location correctly." He then responded, "Definitely. Was it a voicemail that you got? Katie from the sales office says it's probably the voice to text translation. Work hasn't sent out text messages she said." I replied with an ambiguous okay and I earned a laughing emoji with "Entertaining none the less." I then texted, "Must be foreigners encoding that awful translation. Similar to the terrible text/closed captioning under movies for the deaf." "Ya same idea." I proffered this as my explanation. "Your sister Carrie says I'm the English drill sergeant." I scored another laughing emoji with, "Yes you are." What could I write but, "I know and I own it." Thanks to that sad text, my son and I communicated more than we usually do via messaging. He tends to stick to the as-few-words-as-possible responses. Did we have a moment? Did we bond? Be still my beating heart. This is the point where I segue into the modern marvel known as closed captioning. What are those translators/transcribers listening to 'cause it sure isn't what I'm hearing in a movie sound track. I apologize to the hearing impaired. The drivel you are reading scrolling across the screen does not reflect the actual conversations exchanged between the actors. Often it is preposterous and unrelated to the storyline, but as Chris pointed out it is entertaining. Perhaps we are easily amused. Here are but a few examples. Imagine the attempt to follow a story line and you see the word wrenches in place of ranches. Huh? You mean a cattle wrench or a horse wrench? The head love interest is a wrench hand? The owners live in a wrench house? I snicker at this one. Mom settled into a launcher . Oh no, a catapult? And here she assumed she would relax in a lawn chair. How confused would you be to read directions that steered you down a rose instead of a road. Never mind warnings about pot holes and bumps. Look out for the thorns. From an online newscast I took note of the magnificent that quite clearly should have been magnet fishing. Who would cast a line for magnificent? I could see a puzzled reader pausing when they read chopped up pizzas and they clearly saw the television chef handling chopped up pieces. This could be a serious faux pas on a cooking show. These are but a tiny sampling of mixed messages. Miscommunication for sure. Innovation or irritation? Inspiration or irrigation? Invocation or inclination? 561 words Attention Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ and StephBee "The Bard's Hall Contest"
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