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when youre captioning and somebody says a number, how do you write it? bc when writing, you do 'one' 'two' etc up to ten and then 11, 12, etc. but what happens when someone says 'fifty-two hundred' out loud? do you write 5,200? then you've lost a tiny bit of information

#shush slinky #i think the trick when captioning is trying to balance 'give the same amount of information the audio does' and not—#writing so much that its impossible to read in time/is annoying #i prefer to err on the side of too much but im curious as to others opinions on this #also when people omit stutters/stammers. like maybe its seen as polite to do so but—#something is lost in that yknow. same when you leave out the tone of the words #it might get exhausting to read a descriptor of the tone before every line for sure but sometimes its pretty essential

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