Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Conversation Subtitles

You know sometimes it would be nice to have subtitles in life. Sometimes they could be subtitles to tell you what someone really means when they say something, like when they say one thing and mean another. And sometimes they could just be subtitles to tell you exactly what someone is saying, like in hard-to-hear environments. I suppose we would need some sort of control to adjust which one is active at different times.

Of course, knowing my luck I would probably end up with subtitles in another language. The setting would get stuck in Chinese or selective-listener-ese, and they would end up being completely useless to me. I would be right back to not understanding at all or only hearing half of everything that was said.

Yeah, that would be my luck.