Comments on: get to fuck out of the way!!! http://bilgebrain.net/2006/02/24/get-to-fuck-out-of-the-way/ the increasingly incontinent ramblings of a drunken has-been irish punk Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: sev http://bilgebrain.net/2006/02/24/get-to-fuck-out-of-the-way/#comment-16458 sev Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:38:44 +0000 http://bilgebrain.net/index.php/2006/02/24/get-to-fuck-out-of-the-way/#comment-16458 "what’s wrong with subtitles for god’s sake?" Nothing wrong, it's education that is a problem. Not including the youngest generation, deaf viewers in the UK count among themselves a very large number of illiterate or only partially literate people. High-speed subtitle reading is beyond the capability of many of these. Why? "Oralist" education policies in the post-war era failed the deaf community severely, and only in the 70's and afterwards did high levels of literacy become common among the British deaf community. And even then, literacy among the deaf falls behind that of the hearing. If only there was an on-screen signer that could be switched on and off at will! You know, like subtitles can be. One day soon, this facility - called "closed signing" - will happen. But not yet. Therefore: "I bet even the deaf find it fucking irritating" Probably not. "ITV don’t see fit to warn you in their TV listings that these films are signed" What TV listings are you reading? The ones I use tell me which programmes have subtitles, are repeats, have audio-description for the sight-impaired and also, yes, in-vision signing. But otherwise, that's a good point to make. “what’s wrong with subtitles for god’s sake?”

Nothing wrong, it’s education that is a problem.

Not including the youngest generation, deaf viewers in the UK count among themselves a very large number of illiterate or only partially literate people. High-speed subtitle reading is beyond the capability of many of these. Why? “Oralist” education policies in the post-war era failed the deaf community severely, and only in the 70′s and afterwards did high levels of literacy become common among the British deaf community. And even then, literacy among the deaf falls behind that of the hearing.

If only there was an on-screen signer that could be switched on and off at will! You know, like subtitles can be. One day soon, this facility – called “closed signing” – will happen. But not yet.

Therefore:
“I bet even the deaf find it fucking irritating”
Probably not.

“ITV don’t see fit to warn you in their TV listings that these films are signed”
What TV listings are you reading? The ones I use tell me which programmes have subtitles, are repeats, have audio-description for the sight-impaired and also, yes, in-vision signing. But otherwise, that’s a good point to make.

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