LOOK: Closed captioning continues to have no idea what Ed Orgeron is saying
A little background for those not familiar with the current head coach for LSU. He is from South Louisiana and speaks kind of like the Cookie Monster or Slingblade. Those who live here have little problem understanding the guy if you listen carefully and are familiar with the dialect. This is a fun article that shows just how poor ESPN is in their closed captioning. Here is the text, but you need to go to the link to see the pictures and the captioning.
LSU may not have provided the battle many expected it to give Alabama on Saturday night, but there was one intense fight taking place at Tiger Stadium.
That, of course, was the battle between coach Ed Orgeron and the poor folks who try to do closed captioning for what he says.
As you can see below, Coach O remained undefeated against the closed captioning people, who had no idea what he was talking about:
Sure they don’t have the same guy who did the sign language “interpreting” for Obama?
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“I can’t give you brains, but I can give you a diploma.” — The Wizard of Oz
November 05, 2018, 08:35 AM
Salty Dawg
Reminds me of the last Kentucky Derby that jockey Calvin Borel (another Coonass) won. I said to my wife during his post race interview that they should have subtitles turned on for him. My wife said, "What country is he from?" and I replied, "Louisiana".
November 05, 2018, 09:55 AM
rsbolo
Hearing a true "coonass" talking takes me a moment. It is nearly like listening to a Scotsman...once my ears "tune in" I'm good. Before that, heaven help me.
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I grew up around men who talked like that -- one of the dad's in our Scout troop trapped Nutria and shrimped and whatever else was in season. He put Coach O to shame. My wife grew up in central Alabama, and she struggles with Coach O, plus she can't get used to the students' names here -- lots vowels and "x"s.
And a lot of the older generation (and folks my age) have the "Harry Connick Jr." NOLA accent around here, but I really don't hear it among the younger folks.
ETA: One of the brightest guys in my law school class at Tulane was from Thibodaux, which is way down in the swamps in LaFourche (la-foosh) Parish. Top of the class, but, man, his accent gave a couple of the professors fits
