Thursday, June 1, 2006

COME ON BABY TELL ME WHAT'S THE [WORD]: I just switched over to closed-captioning, both so that my colleagues could get some work done and so that I could figure out the answer to this question: how do the closed-caption transcribers handle the Bee? The answer: [word].

"[Pronouncer says word.]"
"[Speller repeats word.] Could you use it in a sentence?"
"The [word] people live in northeastern India."
"[Word]. [Word]. What is the country of origin?"
"India."
"[Word]. S-I-K-K-I-M-E-S-E."

Awkward, I suppose, but it does prevent the closed-captioning people from having to hire ex-Bee champs as temps.

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