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
Subtitles make more sense than showing a signer in a small box on the screen.
If you google him, there are some amazing articles on him.
There are approximately 200 CDI (Certified Deaf Interpreters) in the country.
Google Jason Hurdich. Thank you to Jason and all our CDI’s for doing great work!
Cheers
irish guard
There are perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. Closed Captioning would be more inclusive.
Most TV's now have the capability of the owner turning on that option.
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