Archive for category: Captioning

A ‘C’ student from the word “go”    (2006.09.03)

Taking CBC captioning down a notch (how many notches has it got left?), this time with a Robbie Coltrane vehicle

Angry nitpicking    (2006.08.31)

In lieu of “sending angry nitpicking letters to the CBC,” I thought I’d use picture postcards

All your Mechagodzilla are belong to us    (2006.08.27)

‘Analyse’! ‘Metre’!

Organizing our marvellous neighbours    (2006.08.22)

Why does the CBC use British English to write its captioning?

’Tis an error i’faith    (2006.08.21)

What is with CBC captioners’ fondness for ‘single quotes’?

CBC Blogging Manifesto    (2006.08.13)

CBC wouldn’t write a blogging policy, so its bloggers had to do it themselves

Golden Nugget    (2006.08.13)

In which we explore the writings of the (formerly mysterious) heterosexualist CBC captioner–blogger, “Nugget” (sic)

Lives, plural    (2006.08.13)

“Of course people would always read things (captions, E-mails), but would they want to read long imaginative or confessional works written by writers in the past, even the recent past?”