Subject: Re: Ideas
From: boyajian@ruby.dec.com (Cisco's Buddy)
Date: 1990-11-30, 02:39
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1990Nov28.035502.17591@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, bthomas@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Becky Thomas) writes...

} So I think it's probably a mistake to assume that the closed captioning
} is necessarily right.  On the other hand, maybe the people who do the
} captioning do it a little ahead of time and so can listen to difficult
} phrases a few times or even ask to see a script.  Anybody know?

Well, in *this* case (the Lynchkin's phrase), they *must* be correct. One
of the points that has not been lost on a number of people is that the note
found pinned to Harold Smith had the same phrase. Cooper read this *and*
translated it. Yes, it's *possible* that two homophonic but different
phrases were used, but it's highly unlikely.

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