Community Chat

[LilacTree]

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@GingerPeach wrote:

For example, I might be reading an article about miners and their troubles and all of a sudden see a sentence that reads,

"The red wine was delicious,"  when in fact the real words were "The lead miner was delirious."

And, mind you, the article was actually about mining.  And nobody had had a glass of wine, either!

I first noticed this about the time I needed reading glasses, although now that I have them, it still happens.

Do you have any similar mis-readings?

You can also share any closed caption mistakes you may remember.  Some of those are hilarious.  Next time I see a good one, I'll write it down.

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I'm not sure of your meaning here, Homegirl.  Are you saying you are seeing the wrong words, or the writer is writing the wrong words?  I've never heard of this phenomenon.

About closed captioning, I tried it for a while because my family kept complaining that my sound was too loud on the TV.  It is horrible!  I was so surprised.  I now keep the sound very, very low and just try to catch the gist of the conversation. If no one is home, then I turn it up some.  My neighbors will never hear it because there is a cement block wall between our apartment and the next one, we have no one overhead and nothing around the other three sides either.  We are connected to the apartment building by the one cement wall only.  It's almost like a standalone house.

[colliegirls]

When I glance at something and read quickly, yes, I can misread.  I thought " Showme's Mr Lucky"  was another name for a winkie!  I told her so too and we got a good laugh!