The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #32340 Message #4128789
Posted By: Helen
12-Dec-21 - 11:32 PM
Thread Name: any new mondegreens?
Subject: RE: any new mondegreens?
I was just watching Episode 15, 2009 of Spicks and Specks, an Oz music/comedy quiz show. The Closed Captions showed not one but two mondegreens.
When a short excerpt of the Queen song Bohemian Rhapsody was played the caption showed "Miss Miller" instead of "bismillah", and when a Prince song was mentioned it was captioned as "Raspberry Parade" and not "Raspberry Beret".
I can't tell you whether it was a human or a digital captioner, but in a music show it made it twice as funny.
I need the captions on that show because they all talk so fast and excitedly that I miss the answers to the quiz questions.