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I've graduated from high school and a bachelors program subsequently. That was all decades ago. I've never read a transcript in my life. Why would people do

I've graduated from high school and a bachelors program subsequently. That was all decades ago. I've never read a transcript in my life. Why would people do that generally, unless they had a job in transcription?

labster 5y ago
Because they missed a politician’s speech and read the transcript in the newspaper. Or read a transcript of a historical speech, like the Gettysburg Address. Because they read their own medical records. Because they want to watch television on low volume so they don’t wake the baby or partner, and turn the transcript on. The fact that you have a university degree having never once done these things is indicative of an abysmal education system.
- Talanes 5y ago
  >Because they want to watch television on low volume so they don’t wake the baby or partner, and turn the transcript on. Is calling subtitles "the transcript" a regional variation I've never heard before, or are you just stretching things to make a point?
  - labster 5y ago
    No, and no. TV captions are not typically called transcripts, but they are in fact transcripts. They are not the script, because the director changes things and the actors ad lib. In fact, things get pretty dissonant when they try using the script as captions. Captions transcribe — copy language into a different form — the spoken dialogue into the written word.
- recursive 5y ago
  I have done some of these things. But I didn't know all these things could be called transcript. Basically, I thought they were only for either academic records or recordings of court proceedings. Perhaps the whole terrifying thing with the high school students is actually just a big miscommunication.
  - selimthegrim 5y ago
    If you look on US NPR website you will see transcripts of audio programs.
    - recursive 5y ago
      Now that I know this, I know that I've read many transcripts. And I now think that if someone claims not to have read a transcript, that it's more likely that they don't understand what a transcript is than that they actually haven't read a transcript.
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labster 5y ago

Because they missed a politician’s speech and read the transcript in the newspaper. Or read a transcript of a historical speech, like the Gettysburg Address. Because they read their own medical records. Because they want to watch television on low volume so they don’t wake the baby or partner, and turn the transcript on. The fact that you have a university degree having never once done these things is indicative of an abysmal education system.

Talanes 5y ago
>Because they want to watch television on low volume so they don’t wake the baby or partner, and turn the transcript on. Is calling subtitles "the transcript" a regional variation I've never heard before, or are you just stretching things to make a point?
- labster 5y ago
  No, and no. TV captions are not typically called transcripts, but they are in fact transcripts. They are not the script, because the director changes things and the actors ad lib. In fact, things get pretty dissonant when they try using the script as captions. Captions transcribe — copy language into a different form — the spoken dialogue into the written word.
recursive 5y ago
I have done some of these things. But I didn't know all these things could be called transcript. Basically, I thought they were only for either academic records or recordings of court proceedings. Perhaps the whole terrifying thing with the high school students is actually just a big miscommunication.
- selimthegrim 5y ago
  If you look on US NPR website you will see transcripts of audio programs.
  - recursive 5y ago
    Now that I know this, I know that I've read many transcripts. And I now think that if someone claims not to have read a transcript, that it's more likely that they don't understand what a transcript is than that they actually haven't read a transcript.
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