gnulinuxman

I found these funny videos at http://video.google.com/videosearch?...worlds+collide

Keith Wann is a CODA ASL comedian. He does skits about growing up hearing with Deaf parents.

Unfortunately, these videos are voice interpreted for the sign-language-impaired. But those of us who just want the ASL can turn the sound off.

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Endymion

I love his humor!

hootster

hahahaha, I liked the videos esp the one about the interpreter. Thanks for the laugh.

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gnulinuxman

Me too, especially Technology Ruined Deaf Culture

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Reba

Great! Thanks for the link!

LakeTahoe

Thanks for the links! He is sure sooo FUNNNNNNNNY! He made me LAUGH! I hope my son would be like him!! So that I can keep laughing!

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webexplorer

I like the shows. I think he is a special and interesting actor.

gnulinuxman

You're welcome. I came across this one day and thought others might like it. Sweetmind and Deaflinuxgeek told me to post the link here because I found it....

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Audiofuzzy

I can't enjoy it
It does not have CC and I can't hear nor sign.

Fuzzy

javapride

OH hes hilarious!!!!!!!!!! i showed this to the interpeter friend of mine she about died laughing! LOL!

sablescort

I did watch the videos of Keith's performances. He really brought the house down with his asl!

This is one hell of a comedian and the best one, Deafie or hearie.

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Jolie77

Keith Wann in my opinion is so much hilarious. I've seen some of the videos that he did a skit in. I liked the one where he did the "You smell like fart".

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...3&q=keith+wann

gnulinuxman

That's what you get for being an oralist.

Seriously, this is one reason I promote ASL.

Captions/subtitles would just ruin it for me. So does having the sound on when watching these.... I like the ASL without the sound.

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Sweetmind

OH hellva YES!!! I love Keith Wann so much. He is a very good example that he know how we feel in our Deaf hearts. I laughed so hard that I couldnt stop my tears. It makes me feel so good and feel more deaf spirits to keep up into positive about my being deaf.

Thanks!
Sweetmind

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gnulinuxman

You know what else he demonstrates? He demonstrates that Deaf Culture is full of hearing people too!

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Sweetmind

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Originally Posted by Sweetmind
PS: And whats more I have my computer with lo/hi volume here, and visual movies that comes with voices. ummpphhh! You cannot hear with two hearing aids. I m lost!!

I dont miss out anything from ASL. Thank goodness for having ASL in my life. Thats the two way streets. So Now you get the idea how I felt strongly about for not having two way of streets.

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gnulinuxman

Learning to sign in ASL is something I continue to enjoy. I am still working on understanding other people's signing (I am almost there, but I still have a bit of work to do. I understand my fiancee most of the time, but I see her a lot...) I can sign rather fluently (according to deaf people I've signed to), and many of them are surprised by my fluency....

Anyway, learning to sign has been a very rewarding experience and definitely continues to be one. (No, I will NOT give up oral speech, especially if I need to interpret in church or something....) I guess i can appreciate the visual beauty of it. And it's also nice having my fiancee understand me THE FIRST TIME 95% of the time instead of only 50 % the time, too.

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Audiofuzzy

But I do NOT sign, and since you complain there is no ASL used nationwide I complain why there is no CC everywhere? I demand to have CC on everything, period.

What about rights of HoH?
Are you going to force your ASL on me NOW?

Fuzzy

Audiofuzzy

Yes they do help a lot. A LOT. I can hear sound with them but I do not always understand this sound. I also need lips to read. I can talk on the phone quite well but only in my native langauge. In English, very simple and to the point messages only.

You are depriving me of enjoying this video by JUST simply not providing CC. How the deaf community may not provide CC services knowing full well what's like to watch for example TV news without CC on I can't comprehend. Who if not another deaf person should know better and care about those who not only can't hear but also can't sign.


Yes it is hard for me. You are so close minded and insensitive it's unbeliveable. Now I find you stupid, just stupid.
You are actually bashing ME for being unable to hear and sign.
Don't forget I am one of those chidlren who were denied ASL as a language.
I can't sign not because it was my choice but because of choices my parents made.
You failed OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER to acknowledge that I actually advocate for both ASL and oralism, and even more than oralism -teaching proper English to deaf children.
You are so limited in so many ways I am disgusted with you.

Fuzzy

gnulinuxman

It was YOUR choice not to sign. We didn't prevent you from learning to sign. We didn't stop you from enjoying it because of that and because we didn't make the video.

Don't blame the Deaf community for your problem either because their native language in the US is ASL, not English.
My answer to that: http://www.alldeaf.com/showpost.php?...2&postcount=71

And stop making excuses about not signing because you think it was your parents' fault. It's YOUR fault. YOU decided not to pursue it. If you really wanted to, you would have. However, you chose not to. Please stop blaming others for your problems.

FYI, Sweetmind DOES know how to speak and lipread. So don't tell her she's narrow-minded and denying herself opportunities.

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gnulinuxman

I did NOT say "force everybodyto only use sign language".

Besides, not understanding it is your problem, not mine.

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Audiofuzzy

But the same token sweetie not understanding is every deaf person's problem, not a hearing person problem.
Byt this way of thinking these TV producers would never care to start providing CC - this is YOUR problem deafie to understand, not us hearies... hmm??

Sorry man but 1:

this is exactly the bullcrap that the deaf community is shoving to the hearing pple demanding from them to learn ASL for communicating purposes with deaf pple.
Well it's your choice for example not to learn proper English in order to be able to enjoy CC movies, books, other hearing pple.

This time, you are representant of ASL and YOU tell ME to learn ASL if I want to understand YOU. Yet you are offended when hearing pple don't rush to do exactly the same for the deaf!!

It's the same as telling the deaf person "if you want to understand us, learn hearing ways".

So why do you even demand that hearing people learn your ways? it's the same as you now telling ME to learn YOUR ways.

2:
I WAS brought up as a hearing person by not MY OWN choice, but by my parent's choice and by the choice of my DEAF brother who insisted that I should be brought up ORAL or I wil "forget" how to speak. he pushed me away from deaf culture. I grew up believing it was the right choice.

So, even if this is indeed NOT the deaf pple's community fault that I don't know ASL,
it IS very rude, disrespectful, idiotic and illogical of Sweetmind to put me down like she did in regards of my inability to understand everything with HAs. Firts of all, I never claimed I understand with my HAs everything and like hearing person does. Second, I am one of those children she so "protects" form the evil hearies, oralists and audists.

As I said, I never claimed I can hear like a hearie with my HAs - on the contrary, ever since I came here to Alldeaf my position was that a person with significant hearing loss, no matter how well adjusted to live in the hearing world with HAs or CI, will never be the same as a true hearie and will always struggle with hearing disability.

So how dare this Sweetaudioracist, who only see as far as her own nose, to disrespect me like this.

BTW sweetie it is not hearing people's fault either that the deaf people are deaf, nobody stopped you from learnig how to speak, read and write in proper English so why do YOU complain when there is no TTY, interpreters or CC?

DON'T BLAME HEARING PEOPLE COMMUNITY for YOUR problems because their native language is normal ENGLISH, not ASL.


And granted, the deaf community is not reqiured to provide captions, I know that,
but I was only illustrating the point how you pple only care about your own business, nobody else's, you need ASL so get just ASL, who cares about those who can't hear AND CAN'T SIGN for whathever reason- to hell with them!

so I used lack of captions in Wann's videos just as an example to illustrate my point to your reply about "you should know ASL".
Well it is debatable - SHOULD I? beacuse YOU think so?
what is CC for?
for whenever YOU DEAF think is needed?
I don't have rights to have ALSO CC, since I AM hearing impaired? doesn't matter what video?

Also don't forget Gnu sweetie that you are "special" in other ways and just because for you ASL, CC and the voice it too much at once, does not mean it is for everyone else.

Fuzzy

Cloggy

Try this one:

That's what you get for being deaf.

Seriously, this is one reason I like CI.

Captions/subtitles would just ruin it for me. So does not having the sound on when watching this.... I like the speech with the sound

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gnulinuxman

Fuzzy, Cloggy: I'M HEARING! Sweetmind's well-aware that I am hearing. However, we are still friends anyway.

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Cloggy

I know... no need to shout. You made that perfectly clear.
I just fed you the line that you fed to someone else. "That's what you get for being an oralist."

What's the matter... lost your sense of humor...

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Audiofuzzy

Look Gnu you are not fooling me anymore- when you feel like defending from the deaf point of view, you act like deaf. When you are losing on this point, you yell "I'M HEARING" !!

TOOO BAD !!!!!!!!


When you reply from the deaf standpoint, you will be replied accordingly! so stop manipulating! and thus confusing!!!
besides, my reply was directed at Sweetmind anyway.

Fuzzy

Mookie

Are you trying to hurt Audiofuzzy who prefers a CC? That's not nice...

Audiofuzzy

Thank you Mookie but no it's not Cloggy it's Sweetmind who is rude to me.

Fuzzy