Bebonang

That is really funny, I love it!!!!

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Buffalo

You know how closely the "thank you" and "f*&# off" look like? Well, this guy was attempting to say thank you to me but ended up swearing at me. I laughed at him for this. He was mortified and that was the last time he attempted at sign language. Awww, darn!

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terpprm

when i first started taking asl, my instructor had us get up and tell a story in sign. so i got up and told about this time that my pastor had asked me to go get some coffee from his office. instead of signing coffee i signed make-out. so here i am in front of my entire sign class telling them my pastor asked me to make-out with him in his office. so i got the sign name coffee initialized with p's. which later a few of my deaf friends were nice enough to change to interpreter initialized with p's.

Silentwolfdog

Well my isn't exact ASL moment but lack of direction.

I was chatting with one of interpreters after the class's over. At that time, I was using left hand as "dominant hand" for that conversation. There was one word I did not know the sign and I tried to remember how to spell that word. So I mumbled to myself with my right hand fingerspelled really close to my hip trying to remember how to spell that word. Sort of like hiding it before reveal it, just like how hearing people would mumble to themselves to make sure before starting to talk. Of course, my interpreters looked at that direction where I fingerspelled to myself. Suddenly, I remember how to spell that word and went back to left hand to spell that word. My interpreters quickly had to look at left hand, which is in the air the whole time.
She teased me saying I made them look everywhere to follow the conversation. First left hand then right hand below the chest then left hand again.

One of interpreter I had loved to tease about my signing, lol especially because I am cross domination and sometimes use ASL. I am laid back so I am always amused by her.

I think people love to criticize my signing. Lol.

I remember one deaf person I was chatting with one time. She is ASL teacher. I signed "truck" in SEE way (old habit is hard to break) and she would fingerspell "truck" each time I signed "truck."
I would think, "Huh, what's wrong with her? Why is she repeating that word each time I sign it?"
It's like I could not tell the story with ease because I was distracted by her doing that. I would nod each time she fingerspelled that word.

Later on I realized that she is trying to tell me that I did not sign it correctly. Clearly, I did not catch on her somewhere hidden message, lol. I told her about it later and she went like, "Oops." lol

I must be very confused person, lol.

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cathartes

Back in high school, a hearing boy was crushing BIG time on a deaf classmate. He came to me in private and told me he reallyreallyreally liked that girl and wanted to know how to sign "Hi how are you?" so he could meet her. With a straight face I taught him "Hi, let's get naked".

At lunch time he finally worked up the courage to approach her and started signing what I taught him(perfectly I might add!).... She was SO shocked and offended she actually hit on the shoulder! Poor guy was so surprised and confused.....

They got married after she graduated. I was best man at their wedding.....

p.s. last I heard, they have 6 kids.. Guess those signs did the trick after all!

deafbajagal

When I was in high school, I was asked to say a prayer for the traditional Thanksgiving breakfast at our deaf school. I was nervous about getting in front of so many people so I signed the prayer quickly (which didn't make it easy for the interpreter to voice for me), ending it with "Lord, please bless this food...Amen." In the far right side of the room was the group of cafetaria workers. I could see that their facial expressions were that of shock and dismay. One woman's mouth was dropped. The principal's facial expression= angry. Very. She pulled me aside and asked me if I was trying to be "cute," and said that it wasn't very nice of me to do what I did. When she saw I was confused- she realized I didn't mean to say "Lord, please bury the food. Help."

jillio

That's a great story!

jillio

LOL!

fredfam1

One of our class assignments when I took ASL 20 years
ago in Alaska, was to go attend a Deaf softball game.
I enjoyed the game and chatted with a few people.
One Deaf woman that I hit it off with asked me I
would give her a ride across town. I said sure,
and at first she wanted to have a conversation
with me and tried to sign to me while I was
driving. I kept turning my head all the way to
look at her hands and my car would go the same
direction! She finally just signed that we should
wait until we got there to chat because I was
scaring her very much!

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authentic

When I moved to USA from Russia, and I went to deaf school. One student hit my shoulder, and said "sorry" in ASL. I told her, no, no, she was puzzled, because I misunderstand due to ASL sign for "SORRY" have same sign language for ZLOI (VERY MAD) in Russian Sign Language. I never know the ASL sign for sorry. Now, I thought she said VERY MAD VERY MAD... I was like no no then later I asked my friend what is that ASL sign for "SORRY" and explained to me about it. I got it, and explained to that girl about the difference between RSL and ASL meaning, but same sign.. She think it's cool.

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Miss-Delectable

That's a great story to repeat over the years.

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fredfam1

Today I decided to drive all the way into Salem and shop
because the weather forcast is for freezing and I didn't
want to get stuck with low food storage. So my son and
I decided to attend services at the Salem Friends Church
as they have a Deaf group there. We arrived on time at
10:30, (I was patting myself on the back because I am
normally always late). My son went to get out of the car
and ripped his pants! Now we couldn't go into Church with
his family jewels showing, so we drove around Salem to
find a Goodwill and bought a pair of pants that fit him.
But we were now kind of lost, and we looked and looked
for the Church. After seeing a sign that said Newburg so
many miles I realized we were going the wrong way. By
the time we got back to Church it was 12:15! Pot Luck
was just starting. Feeling guilty because I missed Church
and having to shop on Sabbath anyway, I was just about
to leave. A Deaf person suggested I come and join pot luck.
When I signed about our experience, she thought it was a
wonderful, funny story and insisted I come and eat and tell everyone!
Well we had a wonderful time practicing our sign and eating
too much. Made two new Deaf friends too.

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JennyB

I am deaf myself but mostly use oral communication, however I am a respite worker and I work with many inidividuals with a range of dis/abilities. I also work at a camp for kids with dis/abilities. I had worked with a 4 year old who was profoundly deaf for over a year. Some of his signs weren't ASL but homemade. An example is that he used the ASL sign for socks as the sign for line. So when I was working at the camp with a 12 yr/o who was completely fluent in ASL and told her to go stand in line but used the sign for socks she looked at me sooo confused and signed back you want me to go stand in my socks? and I said yes not realizing. A moment later I caught on and we both thought it was very funny. She made a point of telling all of the other staff at the camp what had happened and now every year when i show up at the training week someone promptly reminds me of this story! It will go down in camp history lol!

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fredfam1

good story! You will be lucky if they don't begin to call you "socks" Hi Socks
long time no see!

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kimpossible

well the only situation i can think of was when i was having a quiz in my ASL class and the teacher was signing short sentences that we were supposed to translate from ASL to english and write down in english word order.

she intended to sign "vacuum the floor" but instead, she said "vacuum the children". a few of us writing the quiz noticed her mistake and started laughing. it took a moment for her to register what she'd just signed. well, i guess you had to be there! but it's an inside joke that lasted with my ASL class for quite some time. =)

fredfam1

Sometimes I have wanted to vacuum my children! Ever watch a
little boy shove a PBJ into his mouth really fast because he wanted
to go out and play some more? Ewweewu!

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