Babyblue

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loml

Babyblue - So you are comfortable with endng this discussion with the ASL sign for door?

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jillio

Exactly. One does not speak to hearing children in complete and complicated English sentences when they are babies, and one does not speak to deaf children in complete and complicated sentences using ASL when they are babies.

Hearing parents do the very same thing when they say to their hearing child: "See doggie?" instead of "See that black and white dog over to your right playing with a ball?"

Please, people, get real.

jillio

No, it doesn't. It means you learn it through interaction with native users rather than through formalized lessons.

jillio

Sounds good in print, but learning only takes place when both parties are capable of opening their minds and seeing another perspective. Obviously, that is not the case here. One is learning, and teaching. The other is selling.

jillio

How about ending it with this sign:

**five hands at temples, moving forward in front of the forehead as the five hands draw together**

And there were two signs in Babyblue's photos. *Door* + *closed*. So much for your expertise on ASL.

Babyblue

loml

Babyblue - It would be great to see your ASL songs with your pre-schoolers. Perhaps with permission, you could put up a little video on YouTube.

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Frisky Feline

ha yep this bill vicar is my all time favorite ASL for the humor purposes. my bad!

Babyblue

I doubt that.

loml

Babyblue - One never knows, if one does not ask.

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faire_jour

Too bad. We all love to little signers!

jillio

It takes a bit more than asking. One needs to pay attention to the answer, as well.

loml

fair_jour - Isn't that the truth!

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jillio

A clarification. Everyone seems to love little hearing signers. But the little deaf signers don't get near as much support.

Bottesini

Faire Jour said it. But she does not want her child to be one?

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shel90

Deaf children do get support...if they have good speech skills..

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jillio

Yep, my point exactly. The little deaf signers are looked down on.

Babyblue

That is what I don't get. I wonder if Oral Professionals feels if it is harmful that I am teaching the hearing preschoolers ASL. If they feel it will delay their speech.

jillio

To be perfectly honest with you, Babyblue, I don't get it either.

Reminds me of something I was just telling a friend who is here. Last week, my nephew brought my 2 year old great-nephew by to visit. He was looking at my birds and saying ______ birdies. I can usually understand everything the kid says, but the word he was using had me puzzled. So I asked his dad, what is he saying to the birds? His dad replied, "Oh, that's hello in Japanese."
I guess maybe they shouldn't allow him to learn things like that cuz it will impede his learning of English.

loml

Babyblue - Frankly, I do not imagine that your intended "Oral Professionals", concern themselves. Your class, although with its merits, is not their enitre world, nor is it really only ASL.

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Babyblue

I agree.

That is like teaching a Spanish Speaking person English!! That will impede their Spanish Language

What a crock!

Babyblue

Can you recognize sarcasm when you see it?

Which I was merely using it to make a point. Not something to debate about.

loml

Babyblue - Can you say with certainty that on every occassion when sarcasm is used that you recognise it?

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naisho

Sounds like a cool kid.

Which word? (pronunciation form below)
cone-nee-chee-wah
oh-ha-yo

PS. What birds do you own?


loml, a suggestion if I may..
As a spectator, I've been observing and re-reading the posts in this thread. After my initial post warranted my inferred conclusions, I thought that there was seemingly a "witch" hunt going on in which the parties were scrutinizing Babyblue over her ASL teaching methods.

Now I am slowly coming to realization that this actually may not be the case.

In advance I apologize if this may seem intruding, however if you care that I may pass my opinion, which is completely out of goodwill:


The method in which the manner of your speaking format online, is mistakenly being taken (by some) as a curly, sharp, piercing tone.

Usually I don't really comment on the format another speaker responds to others on any forum, but now when I realize it affects the manner in which the responses are to be conceived, this is when something needs to be said, for the sake of the greater good.

I noticed you have a habit of repeating the poster's name that you are quoting often times, this being the most testifying evidence of all cases presented. Often in the online forum and bbs community, for the most part we do not address the username of the person we wish to speak directly to, when quoting. The quote function generally takes care of the needs for that, if it is already there.

But when garnering their attention twice, per the following example, this is what is going on:

What I'm seeing this is in this format (and probably a majority of other posters as well, possibly some in this thread already)

It's speaking to them twice, which kind of draws an unintentional conveyance in the format of speech presented.. Then the responses stemming from that may seem somewhat hostile, but I can assure you it all is in the form of self-defense.

Just wanted to drop my if you read through it all. If it were honestly respect towards the speaker each time it was done previously, you have an unconditional respect for respecting others from not just me, but perhaps others who may see this as well. Granted, what damage is already done, especially in the direction the thread has been heading the past few pages. But here is hoping for the better.

jillio

It was cone-nee-chee-wah. I kept trying to translate it phonetically into something in English because I did not expect him to be speaking Japanese! He has 4 older borthers and sisters, and he picks stuff up from them so quickly!

I have 2 parakeets.

faire_jour

I'm so f^@%ing sick and tired of this! MY DAUGHTER USES ASL. IT IS HER LANGUAGE! Get over yourselves. You want to see me an an oralist or audist because it makes you feel better. It's just not true.

jillio

Recognizing an audist doesn't make anyone feel better, except perhaps another audist. Most consider it to be a saddening experience indeed.

Bottesini

Swearing at people is not polite.

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Jiro

and that's the decree issued by Ministry of Language

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