Posted on 01/10/2025 8:52:30 PM PST by murron
Why are they doing this?
Why are they there to begin with when there’s CC on TV? They look like idiots and I’m guessing it’s nothing more than look at me requirements... They’d need signers for every language if they did it right.
I know someone who teaches sign language. Don’t recall any of those wild gesticulations.
When we listen to someone giving a speech, we also listen to the tone of voice and inflection on pronunciation to get the true feeling as to what he is saying. Much like the difference of talking to someone versus reading a text. So when the signer is making what you call faces, he is trying to portray the feelings of the person giving the speech by his tone of voice. I wish people were not so ignorant to try and understand how people without the same sensory perception that they have to live and understand one another.
The sign language stuff is pure virtue signalling by the left. It’s almost mandatory when some leftist pol is speechifying.
Those signers are freak show comedians. Just trying to add more hilarity to the crap going on with the California Blue Politicians. Either that or they are full retards. That one signer yesterday looked like he was doing his long, masturbation routine. What a moron. He wasn’t signing. He was doing his comedy routine.
When I said it’s the “look at me” it’s the politicians I was talking about meaning I have a signer..I’m someone.
As for all the facial expressions of the signers I don’t get it. I read a book and I have no problem understanding the feelings or intent of the words I’m reading.
How can you watch facial expressions and watch what’s being signed especially when a signer is repeating what a politician is saying at a news conference. The politicians have no feelings 99% of the time.
As for hearing, mine sucks. I can’t watch a movie without CC on because I just here mumbling because of the background noise, music etc in movies. Sometimes treading the CC I miss things in the movie. The constant tinnitus doesn’t help either and I avoid loud places because it’s just noise. Hearing aids just amplify the noise and I have goods that are also directional.
I don’t read sign language and I’ve tried to read lips in noisy areas and at best that’s beyond amusing so I usually just nod or just flat out say, I don’t know what you’re saying.
To each his own.
>> I read a book and I have no problem understanding the feelings or intent of the words Iām reading. <<
How many times online have people been insulted by or otherwise misunderstood what people wrote because there was no accomapnying signals?
It is not unusual for people on FR to write that they should have marked something as sarcasm, for instance.
In books, authors work really hard to convey the expression in a character’s voice. Authors write: she said through her tears, or his eyes narrowed as he said, or he murmured, said sarcastically, shouted, etc.
Not so easy to understand the CC beneath a news cast without signals, and often with typos and other errors.
If I have trouble understanding a speech, I just concentrate on what is being said by repeating it in my mind.
I have done that before. So distracting.
You have written my post for me!
Ditto on it all!
So where is the pic or video of this?
There was a clip yesterday on Fox that was an absolute clown show. The pierced pony tailed signer looked like he was on crack twitching and flailing through the news conference. It was so distracting I don't even remember what the conference was about.
I usually write “sarcasm for those who can’t understand the obvious” š¤£
It truly was, but also proof that the institutional rot of the US Secret Service began before POTUS Trump.
Yup! They’re auditioning ... hoping to be “discovered” ... a 15-minutes “thing”.
I can't imagine any deaf person not having a TV with closed captioning.......
oh that is too funny thanks for that
Oh, that’s you, is it? š¤£š š¤£
My question is how big is the budget for signers? There is always a different person.
How many deaf people are even watching?
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