Here's a picture I took of a tv with its captioning on back in 1990 in Carlin Hall at Gallaudet University. It was one of my roommate's separate room. You can see where it says "In one ear out the rubber" when it should've said "In one ear out the other." But here's the thing, I remember I accidentally took a picture and I had no idea what I took. Now, I suppose with rampant captioning errors back in 1990 I guess the odds were pretty good that I'd capture a captioning error on tv with my camera. But back then I didn't realize I took a picture of a tv. I didn't know until I got my film developed did I notice the captioning error on my roommate's tv screen. Must've been really bad back then to capture a captioned tv at random and without even realizing it.
Even today, we still see captioning errors that still make you shake your head or do a double take on what you just witnessed
like this one here.
As always, both are examples of human errors when human captioners are involved listening to the words where sometimes they do not always get it right. Still, we should be thankfull of that access and we'll see plenty more captioning on both tv and the internet.
