Sign Language
 

I'm bored with an internet connection so....

Did you ever watch sign language and try to sync it with the actual speak?

It's kind of freaky.

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Ha. Funny you should make this thread. Watching the sign language interpreter has become one of my favorite pass-times with these daily updates.

I was watching this one chick last night and she was gettin' DOWN. Her head was bobbin' in all sorts of ways like she was sign-language-rapping....i was like, "daaaang. Ok i see YOU"

I was watching a mayoral press conference yesterday and thinking the exact same thing. I presume that sign language must be missing a lot of nuance, right? Can they really make different signs for things like 'said' versus 'remarked' or 'immediately' versus 'soon'? It seems like it would be impossible to do that and that it would be more of a pidgin English.

I envision that it's something like this:

Talker person: We will begin developing a serum-based vaccine immediately with the help of our highly capable medical researchers

Signer person: We make medicine soon. Doctors help.

I could be completely wrong, though. Any sign language people here know how it works? If so, can you tell me what the sign language people are communicating during the Star-Spangled Banner?

That's the thing that gets me is the body language and expressions and trying to match them with the speech. I'm waiting for them to start break dancing (I'm showing my age) or something.

You guys should work on learning it..
I should to. Could be fun.
I do know this. My cousin was Omaha cop. He had to learn both sign and Spanish..
He said Spanish was much harder to pick up.

That's hands down.
The best sign language symbol

That's pretty much how I've seen it as well. It must be like getting the bullet point version of the lecture with physical emotions thrown in to push the point.

I'd love to hear any input on how this works.

Was the signer native?

This guy killing it in his plum smugglers

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See, that's the thing: how do you say "virus" in sign language? That's a very specific term. You would have to say "sick" or "bug".

I wonder if there's a sign for, say, "weeble wobble" or do you just say "toy"?

Never paid too much attention to this stuff but it's pretty cool.

I don't think so, but I wasn't paying that much attention to her. But the most interesting thing to me was that one signer worked the mayor's speech, and then when he opened it up for questions, that signer left the stage and a second signer came up. Initially I wondered if signing is tiring work, but now I suspect the first signer was less experienced and was able to practice the speech. The second signer was an older lady that I thought might be more experienced.

The press conference signers are so animated! I have a hard time not just focusing on them.

You just made her sound very Tonto-ish.

It makes me think back to the days when SNL news used to have the hard of hearing interpreter.

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