Speaking non-english

[Baitball Blogger]

I have the captions on, watching the greeting of Macron and his wife to the White House. When Macron speaks in French, the captions read, Speaking non-english.

Really? Even the captions are MAGA!

[Walleye]

1. I'm watching on the France 24 channel. They're doing a pretty good job of covering it

Don’t have closed captions on this though. It really looks like genuine affection and respect between the two men. Not the immature macho arm wrestling TFG

[sarisataka]

2. Or..

For the hearing impaired who are using captions while lip reading to avoid confusion why the words don't match what it looks like he is saying.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Why wouldn't the caption read, "Speaking in French"

There are lip readers who speak French, surely?

[sarisataka]

6. "Speaking in French"

"Speaking in Spanish"
"Speaking in German"
"Speaking in Cantonese"
"Speaking in Mandarin"
"Speaking in Urdu"
"Speaking in ...........

Or
"Speaking in non English" when likely 90+% of those lip reading do so for English.

In France I would expect the caption to be "Ne parle pas Français"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Euro leaders are often multi-lingual, beyond bi-lingual. Can't assume Fr Prez only speaks French

I think the captioners are not hired on their ability to tell one European language from another, though many could.

Further, the captioning service may have a policy to label ALL non-English as non-English. It would probably be the best policy, to avoid mistakes or embarrassing mistakes. To untutored ears, Ukrainian sounds rather like Russian. Imagine the hoo-hah that would ensue if they labelled a Ukrainian speaker as "Russian language" instead of "Ukrainian language" or "non-English".

I would have to look up Macron's language capabilities, but I not that interested at the moment.

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. Macron speaks English quite well.

I've heard him on other occasions.

[Ocelot II]

11. Probably machine translation, and they don't have it wired up for French.

Most closed captioning is done by machine translation now, not by humans.

[gab13by13]

3. People underestimate the power of propaganda

and the power of controlling the narrative.

I only watch Nicolle Wallace on cable and I listened to her yesterday using the word homeland over and over again. It pisses me off. It must revert back to her Bush days when W and Cheney started pushing the use of homeland. Is it so hard to say America or the United States instead of homeland?

Pretty soon the use of homeland will be replaced by Fatherland.

People now think a fence is a wall.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. So true. So true.

[nightwing1240]

7. Republicans have been using Hitlers playbook for some time now

This isn't new we just are able to see and understand it better because they (the GOP) no longer try to hide it

[Hortensis]

9. Lol. Which channel is this? If it's not OANN or Newsmax,

I'm going to assume a tech messed up.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. MSNBC

[Hortensis]

12. Okay. It does sound MAGA-ish for sure. :)

[Martin68]

13. I see that all the time in subtitles for movies and it drive me crazy.

[Emrys]

14. "Speakin furrin", surely? n/t

[NQAS]

15. I've seen that on tv shows with subtitles

A tv show in French or German or whatever with English subtitles. Then there’s a character who speaks in Dutch, and the caption reads, foreign language or done thing like that. I think it’s because captions are generated automatically and are programmed for one spoken language and one captioned language. A thing else returns an error message. Not political. Just cheap, lazy, and just don’t give a crap.