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| 99% accuracy? Help! |
When you're contemplating switching from court reporting to captioning, everything spitting out of your fingers has got to translate. No ifs ands or buts about it.
In reporting, if a sound alike pops up during a depo, it's no big deal, we just change it when we're editing.
This just doesn't work in captioning when you'll be flying by the seat of your pants wearing your fuzzy slippers. The right word has got to go up on that screen no matter what.
So if you're a wizard of realtime, you're probably saying about now, "yeah, so, what's the problem?" If you're like the rest of us, you're probably thinking captioning is just out of your league.
Luckily, the old "you can't teach a dog new tricks" saying is a bunch of bunk. You can learn to change the way you write IF you want to and IF you do it in small steps.
I was lucky. When I started court reporting school in late 2001, I learned a realtime theory. Albeit it was Phoenix Theory -- which is a topic for another post -- it still enabled me to write realtime right out of the gate.
However, I have came across some sound-alikes in my journey to be a captioner that I'm learning to change.
There are actually three conflicts here, one of which I didn't know about.
Carrot - Bugs Bunny's dinner
Karat - Gold is king
Carat - Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Caret - A proofreader's mark
Who Knew?
It turns out there's a lot of homonyms out there that are rarely used, but, as a captioner, we're still going to have to know how to write the right word. I'm listing just a few to help you out. If you can think of others, please add them in the comment section so all of us old dogs can learn some new tricks.
carol - Christmas song
carrel - study enclosure
clack - noise
claque - hired applause
fain - willing
feign - pretend
gage - security deposit
gauge - measuring instrument
gorilla - ape
guerrilla - soldier
nice - friendly
gneiss - rock
For a list of more homonyms, visit Alan Cooper's Homonyms.
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