A BBC DJ has upset some of the deaf community in the UK after making a strong comment on Twitter about subtitles. Sarah Cox was watching the movie Bridesmaids with a date and Twittered that captioning was "daft" - slang for "stupid" or "crazy." Cox wrote, "How daft is this? I'm on a date at flicks & Bridesmaids is gonna have English subtitles. I morphed momentarily into my dad & asked if we got any money off. If I was wearing specs I could've put a thin strip of black gaffer tape across the bottom of the lenses to block out the subtitles." She later apologized and the tweets were eventually deleted from her page.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
BBC DJ: Captioning is "Daft"
A BBC DJ has upset some of the deaf community in the UK after making a strong comment on Twitter about subtitles. Sarah Cox was watching the movie Bridesmaids with a date and Twittered that captioning was "daft" - slang for "stupid" or "crazy." Cox wrote, "How daft is this? I'm on a date at flicks & Bridesmaids is gonna have English subtitles. I morphed momentarily into my dad & asked if we got any money off. If I was wearing specs I could've put a thin strip of black gaffer tape across the bottom of the lenses to block out the subtitles." She later apologized and the tweets were eventually deleted from her page.
