Thursday, March 29, 2007

Another thing that bites.

If any of you remember my last post I said I was going to quit ranting. That is why I have not posted. Ranting is a part of who I am, its what I do. So out goes the non ranting position I took.
Here goes.
I can understand just two languages. One is english and the other is low german. I need them spoken at a little higher decibels than in my youth, but I still understand them. But I don't understand english mixed with french, arabic, spanish, yiddish, russian, high german or any other number of languages or dialects that are spoken somewhere in the world today. It doesn't matter what you watch on tv, if the person being interviewed speaks a different language, all producers now take it upon themselves to prove to us all that the interview being conducted is authentic, by broadcasting both the speaker and the interpreter's voice at the same time. Most of us, because we live in an english speaking country, speak english. We wouldn't really have a clue what the other person is saying anyway. For all we know they're reciting a subliminal message like, "drink the juice, satan is your friend, God is dead" over and over as the interpreter is going on about the seal hunt. How do we know? We don't, because we can't understand either language. In our left ear we get the juice message and in the other we hear the seal message, and what we think we actually here is that Newfoundland has discovered a new energy drink made from the blubber of the seal harp. It is completely natural, and even Paul McCartney is endorsing it.
Get it straight people, and give it to me in one language at a time.