So, like I said, my new headset has a microphone that actually works.

[capri0mni]

So I took a break from my poetry book, and tried it out --redoing a video for a birthday song I wrote a few years ago: Your friends all sing (With redone lyrics, too).

...The mic also picked up the sound of its own creaking as it moved while I opened and closed my jaw ...

Um, I'm not sure how to fix that.

Also, I'm rather pleased to have written my closed captioning track completely typo free on the first attempt. :-)

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Did you write the caption track with speech recognition? If so, you deserve triple kudos!

I'm totally familiar with the mic-micing-its own mictitude, and I'm amazed it isn't more of a problem.

[capri0mni]

No... Speech recognition is a joke, especially for a woman's voice and triply so if it's sung (unless you need it -- and then, it's an insult).

I wrote the captions as an .srt file -- typing out the lyrics as I wanted them to be read. It's just that it's a format that's very detail sensitive, and you can't know if you've gotten it right until after you've uploaded it and attached it to your video... so I was relieved not to have to retype anything.

[jesse_the_k]

Two point five kudos then ... And I'm glad to know someone who has a clue re .srt files. *makes note*

[capri0mni]

Hey, I'll take it!

BTW, is "Kudos" plural, or singular? If it's already plural, would 2.5 kudos be "Kudos-ku?" If it's singular, would that be "Kudos-kudos-ku?"

SRT files are really straightforward, when you take the time to learn the parts -- there's only 4 parts, after all. And everything looks like what it does. All it takes is a little extra time. I can understand (grudgingly) if someone feels it's too much trouble to add a caption track to a live camera capture.

But if you already care enough about your video quality to make sure the lighting is right, set up the mics so there's no squealing feedback, and write a script ahead of time, so you know what you want to say, there is absolutely no excuse not to take the time to make your own caption track.

I know I'm preaching to the choir, here, but maybe a passerby is eavesdropping.

Thank Ghu for Online OED Access

[jesse_the_k]

I know I'm preaching to the choir, here, but maybe a passerby is eavesdropping. Is a wonderful phrase. Now I have to squeeze it on to a bumper sticker small enough for a chair, or in an outwards spiral, perhaps, for a hat decoration?

Kudos, which means "Glory, fame, renown" comes straight from the Greek Κυδος "praise, renown" and is a singular noun. Twas orig University slang from the lips of well-praised Classics students.

Some citations, because I know you love them:

1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 391 He obtained kudos immense.

1841 B. Disraeli Let. 23 Feb. in Corr. with Sister (1886) 171, I am spoken of with great kudos in ‘Cecil’.

1859 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 168 Lyell has read about half of the volume in clean sheets, and gives me very great kudos.

1889 Boy's Own Paper 17 Aug. 729/1 Our champion was held to have lost no kudos in the encounter.

1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard vii. 196 News services buzzed, but George Doodie sought no kudos; his name was mentioned only once.

1972 J. Creasey Splinter of Glass vii. 55 He wanted Roger to take the kicks if this failed but was prepared to give him the kudos if the use of the newspapers succeeded.

Between WWI and II the Americans began phrasing it Kudos to, and given our cultural weight, soon only those who remember their Greek will say it any other way.

Here are samples of "erroneous backformation" as kudo; OED also downgrades the level of praise to "Honourable mention, praise for an achievement,"

1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 34 Kudo, good standing with the management.

1950 F. Allen in G. Marx Groucho Lett. (1967) 73 A man sitting on a toilet bowl swung open the men's room door and added his kudo to the acclaim.

1961 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Oct. 12/2 This did not win Mr. Eisenhower many kudos in the press.

1963 Life 19 Apr. 29/2 A kudo to Life for a fine story on baseball's spring training.

1972 Sunday Mirror 17 Sept. 47/1 This below-strength Chelsea side captured the few kudos that were going.

1972 Homes & Gardens Nov. 60 It seems almost a kudos to have a lady pilot.

1972 Bankers' Mag. Winter 23/2 Kudos are expressed to Messrs. Gene Jackson, Joel Anderson, and John Tolford for their aid.

That Grouch Marx's potty joke is among the citations makes all the pasting worthwile.

Re: Thank Ghu for Online OED Access

[capri0mni]

Glad you like my metaphor-extending. It got me thinking of this song, from the duo "Emma's Revolution" (video starts ~86 seconds in): Has anybody seen the choir?"

Thanks for the citation list. You know me well. :-D