Where's Garrett Morris when you need him?
Posted on 10/06/2016 3:22:04 PM PDT by ml/nj
So I'm watching the Weather Channel. (I'm allowed. My 93 year old Mom lives on the Intracoastal in West Palm Beach.) And there's some government guy, in the Carolinas I think, talking about doom and destruction in a little window on the screen.
In another window, three times the size, there's some fat oaf flailing away, almost assuredly at taxpayer expense, with his hands and arms. I assume he was "signing" the words of the government guy.
So I looked. Our deaf or nearly deaf population is about a million. (And they must be illiterate or blind too, because it seems to me that subtitles would be more useful otherwise.) Our French speaking population is two million. But I guess no one cares whether they get the warning or not.
ML/NJ
Sums up the entire last 8 years.
The guy on the right and the guy on the left are both outrageous scam artists.
That’s what you worry about?
Please tell me there is some critical reason for this video?
LOL!
That subtitle was pretty clear.
Also, The 'Signer' on Ben Lurkin's Post 3 provided a more eloquent summation of Obama's speech than his words could ever convey.
Doesn’t surprise me in the least. There are also regional dialects of ASL.
He’s flashing gang signs so they know when it’s safe to loot.
I thought that you have a selection on your cable remote to get any channel “closed captioned” — i.e. with written text, for whatever reason people need or prefer that.
Got to have pictures! expecting people to be able to read is RAAAACCCIIIISSSS!
1.The ASL interpreter may have been there for deaf people physically present at the place where they were filming.
2. Especially since the camera pulled away from the ASL interpreter during part(s) of the conference
3. Hearing French people have the ability to learn to at least understand spoken English. Deaf people do not have that ability. Lip-reading under the best of circumstances is only at about 25%.
And personally, I’d rather our tax dollars go to help people who really have no options, like deaf people, than into lining the pockets of already-rich people.
Closed captioning only works so well with someone whose first language is not English.
ASL is NOT signed English and it’s not simply a matter of signing the exact words that the speaker is speaking. There is translation going on there to make it more understandable for someone whose native language is ASL.
I suppose one could argue that Deaf people living in the US ought to be fluent in English as well, and that would be nice if that were the case, but it’s not.
I can’t believe that you don’t have more important things to worry about than ASL interpretation for the Deaf and hard of hearing.
I wish I had such an easy life that the biggest issue I had to deal with was being annoyed at seeing something I didn’t want to see.
Your ignorance of what the Deaf have to deal with on a daily basis can be excused, but your pettiness in posting a vanity like this exposes the smallness of your mind and spirit.
As a deaf person, I can explain this for you very clearly.
There are many deaf people who understand sign language better than captioning or subtitles. ASL is their first language. ASL is not the same as English language. Very different.
In a situation like this hurricane, most deaf people should have the message given to them in their first language.
I was mainstreamed and didn’t learn sign language until college so I’m more dependent on captioning.
Hope this helps y’all understand the need for an interpreter in situations such as these. That interpeter was not flailing his arms. He was signing beautifully and clearly for the deaf. ASL is beautiful! :)
Thanks for the clear and insightful explanation :)
You see to me the signers at all these government functions are symbolic of government running amok. And talking about government running amok is sort of what we do here at FreeRepublic. The people you seem so worried about, if they exist at all at these charades, could easily be accommodated by handing out a copy or copies of the prepared text the guy is reading from.
All sorts of people have all sorts of problems and we all learn to deal with them in one way or another. If you want to contribute to your favorite charity, I certainly won't stop you. But when you force me to contribute, I draw the line. Kapeesh?
ML/NJ
be able to read is RAAAACCCIIIISSSS!
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‘Funny’...I didn’t think of reading...
I was looking towards radio.....
BUT if ‘we’ speak in clear tones it would be.
Must speak ebonics
When I started in the asphalt business, I had to learn a new language.
When we hit the 90s, I ‘joked’ I had to get away from it as I wasn’t about to learn a new language - Spanish, since I already learned Ebonics...
Not to mention but apparently the guy doing the signing is deaf and actually has someone sign to him what to sign live on tv. Seriously, this hurricane is nothing to mess with and for someone to bust a station’s chops for trying to reach everyone the easiest way makes a helluva a lot of sense. Sometimes people on this site get really nuts about things that matter and other times like ragging on signing, they’ve gone nucking futs. Lighten up.
The fat oaf is deaf. Lighten up.
Where's Garrett Morris when you need him?
I forgot about him. That was hilarious.
I think his complaint was that there are twice as many francophone viewers as deaf viewers, so why no French captioning?
If it was the news conference I saw, the sign language interpreter was a tall, beefy white guy who really was about three times larger than the official giving the briefing. In addition, he was curiously dressed in that he had on a too small dark suit jacket but was wearing wrinkled khaki trousers. So I have to agree that the sign language interpreter was a little bit distracting is he waved his arms around right next to the podium.
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