Originally Posted by deafbajagal

Thanks, Jillo, for clarifying what I was trying to explain. I wasn't trying to be a smartass - I was simply pointing out the viewpoint that could get our friend Aquablue in trouble in deaf community. . I used to get mad when someone would say something like, "So - where's YOUR interpreter?" or some kind of comment about "MY" interpreter - and I would shot out - "Actually, the interpreter is not for ME...I'm fluent in ASL, thank you very much. Since you're the one that's not fluent in ASL - well, I guess the interpreter is for YOU." I turn the table on them . Of course it's not true...the interpreter is there for the both of us - one of us happen to use ASL (or Signed English - if I see that the interpreter's ASL skills are weak, so therefore s/he is not an interpreter but actually a transliterator) and the other person uses spoken English.

Hopefully everything's crystal clear now .