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 I’m 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.
You have written my post for me!
Ditto on it all!