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Old 01-21-2008, 09:19 PM   #38 (permalink)
fredfam1
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Originally Posted by Silentwolfdog View Post
I am not ASL users either and I did not understand some of his signs at first but I figured out at the end.

Basically Roger is telling a story about hearing dad who learned ASL for his deaf son. He used the book to learn sign languages. During baseball game where his son played on the team. His son was a lousy player and dad went to tell his son that he's very disappointed with him and as the result, the father broke his own jaw. This is because of the sign "disappoint" is designed to go to person's jaw and generally hearing people are fragile (Roger said that, not me), unlike deaf people, so as the result he broke his jaw. Then Roger went on to tell stories of other people who made attempts to sue ASL because of injuries involved with certain signs. Deaf lawyer came to defend the case by bring up "HASL" which is for hearing people where they can cover certain parts of their face with other hand so that they won't get hurt by ASL. Oh yeah and...hahahah.. now I get it! (see me slapping my leg repeatedly and laughing)

That's basically the main point of what he said.

Hopefully I am right? Anyone want to correct those?

If no one has brought up a transcript for you in a couple of days, I will be happy to try make one for you. Hopefully someone will because their English might be better than mine.

I believe in equal access so.
Thank you! I needed this explanation. I pick up new signs best by watching
first, reading a transcript and watching again to look for individual signs. (I know we are NOT supposed to do it that way but thats how I learn) You
won't believe how many times I watched Deaf Ninja and each time I become
aware of a new sign. Sigh, sometimes my brain feels as if IT is in slow motion.
I would like a transcript too.
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