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what did he say button

 A button to display the last few seconds of closed captioning, for when speech is unclear
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So the device records the closed captioning. When somebody says something you can't quite hear, hit the button and it displays the last few seconds. That way, if you can't hear what somebody said, you can hit the button.

The "instant replay" on TiVo and the like doesn't cut it. If it was muddled the first time, it'll probably be muddled on the replay. And you have to rewind a fair bit to pick up the captioning stream.

—Piquan, May 27 2003

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       But what if the closed-captioning transcribers couldn't hear it either?
—phundug, May 27 2003
   

       [mumbles]
—DrCurry, May 27 2003
   

       The perfect gift for anyone with kids.   

       Bill Clinton: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
(rewind)
Bill Clinton: "We were never in a sexual relationship."
(rewind)
Bill Clinton: "That depends on what your definition of 'is' is."
—k_sra, May 27 2003
   

       [more mumbles]
—DrCurry, May 27 2003
   

       2003! There are people that weren't born then!!!!
—pashute, Oct 12 2023
   

       This is actually a great idea

[pashute] I suppose you could say that about any date in the past
—hippo, Oct 12 2023
   

       Not //any// date, [hippo]; only dates between now and about 120 years ago.
—pocmloc, Oct 12 2023
   

       Very true [pocmloc] - I stand corrected
—hippo, Oct 12 2023
   

       OK thanks.   

       You can sit down again now
—pocmloc, Oct 12 2023
   

       It all depends if you take the word 'then' to imply a continuous state of being or a discrete event. The meaning can thus either be "There are people that weren't born by that point in time but who after that point were in the state of having been born", or "There are people for whom the time of their birth was not the exact time this idea was posted on May 27th 2003"
—hippo, Oct 12 2023
   

       [a1] It wouldn't help. Everyone is is a state of having been born. Even the dead, though they don't know it. The unborn are different than the undead. More that 237 unborn can dance on the head of a pin, whereas only a few entire, or a small collection of undead parts will fit. This word salad is like asking, "Yo, Jake, is Wilson still dead?"
—minoradjustments, Oct 12 2023
   

       Tralfamadorable? Or more Tralfadeplorable?
—pertinax, Oct 13 2023
   
      
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