New Signers' Funny Mistakes - Page 2

SimplyMints · 11-01-2008, 02:45 AM

I'm not even sure if I should even say this, but I swear to you I am not making this up! I went to my sister's for a Halloween party she invited me too, and it was totally hearing. My sister was the only one there who knew sign, and I was the only one there who had no hearing. Anyway, suddenly, well from what it looked like to me, suddenly, her husband walked out the door and drove away. I asked my sister where he went. She signed back, "Begging vagina pie?" I suddenly remembered there was supposed to be pizza at this party. I still don't know where the first two words came from (perhaps some strange way of saying pepperoni????????), but I'm sure "pie" was supposed to be "pizza," so I showed her one of the many ways to sign pizza, but I didn't get around to the rest of it because she got interrupted. He later returned with pepperoni pizza.

SimplyMints · 11-10-2008, 08:12 PM

My dad asked me if I was a toilet today. I think "toilet" is his favourite sign since he's learned it.

Hear Again · 11-10-2008, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by SimplyMints

My dad asked me if I was a toilet today. I think "toilet" is his favourite sign since he's learned it.

What was he actually trying to sign? "Tuesday?" If so, I can see how those two signs can be easily confused.

SimplyMints · 11-10-2008, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Hear Again

What was he actually trying to sign? "Tuesday?" If so, I can see how those two signs can be easily confused.

Haha, that's possible! I just made a joke out of it and asked him if he liked toilets, then my mom came in the room and changed the subject.

I should go down and tell him today is Monday.

Hear Again · 11-10-2008, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by SimplyMints

Haha, that's possible! I just made a joke out of it and asked him if he liked toilets, then my mom came in the room and changed the subject.

I should go down and tell him today is Monday.

The_One · 11-11-2008, 07:54 PM

My sister once tried to say "help her" (as with the left hand palm up and the sideways "A" on top) during a class presentation and instead she signed "sh*t", the teacher noticed, and he wasn't amused but he's cool so he didn't say anything but I could not stop laughing.

lsfoster · 11-11-2008, 07:58 PM

Okay, I'll admit to my recent one. I went out with a deaf friend who's Indian, and he ordered Indian food, so I explained that I don't like it because it's too spicy. So he showed me the sign for spicy, which he does as a 5 hand coming from under the chin while wiggling the fingers.

Next time we went out, there were a few of us, and I was asking him how to say "peppers", and my friend responded by moving a 5 hand with wiggling fingers horizontally to the side....

Needless to say I got laughed at a lot for thinking that was the sign.

Mrs Bucket · 11-11-2008, 08:17 PM

Ok get this, growing up in front of Deaf adults, I was exposed to "graphic ASL" meaning the signing of schwang was really out there to see!

A new signer mistook the sign of the large schwang as "milkshake". Much later on, we were ordering and I decided to allow the new signer to order for us and she signed that "huge schwang" sign for milkshake!

Who said deaf people can't shriek?!

Hear Again · 11-12-2008, 02:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Mrs Bucket

Ok get this, growing up in front of Deaf adults, I was exposed to "graphic ASL" meaning the signing of schwang was really out there to see!

A new signer mistook the sign of the large schwang as "milkshake". Much later on, we were ordering and I decided to allow the new signer to order for us and she signed that "huge schwang" sign for milkshake!

Who said deaf people can't shriek?!

"Schwang?"

Hear Again · 11-12-2008, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by lsfoster

Okay, I'll admit to my recent one. I went out with a deaf friend who's Indian, and he ordered Indian food, so I explained that I don't like it because it's too spicy. So he showed me the sign for spicy, which he does as a 5 hand coming from under the chin while wiggling the fingers.

Next time we went out, there were a few of us, and I was asking him how to say "peppers", and my friend responded by moving a 5 hand with wiggling fingers horizontally to the side....

Needless to say I got laughed at a lot for thinking that was the sign.

Mrs Bucket · 11-12-2008, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Hear Again

"Schwang?"

Hear Again, you will have to forgive me and my vocabulary. Heh heh!

Schwang is peter pecker, wookie, man's best friend, weewee, or else known as p*nis.

Hear Again · 11-12-2008, 08:11 AM

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Hear Again, you will have to forgive me and my vocabulary. Heh heh!

Schwang is peter pecker, wookie, man's best friend, weewee, or else known as p*nis.

Why couldn't I figure that out for myself?

I must be living under a rock or something because I've never heard of that word before.

Hear Again · 11-12-2008, 08:16 AM

Of course, I could have saved myself alot of embarrassment by looking up that word on Dictionary.com. Oh well. LOL.

SimplyMints · 11-12-2008, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Hear Again

Of course, I could have saved myself alot of embarrassment by looking up that word on Dictionary.com. Oh well. LOL.

Don't worry, I didn't even know that word. I did try looking it up on dictionary.com, and it isn't there. However, I do know the word without the "sch" in front of it, so I assumed that's what it meant. Out of curiosity, I went just now to dictionary.com and looked it up with the "sch" removed, and found it.

Bottesini · 11-12-2008, 11:37 AM

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Of course, I could have saved myself alot of embarrassment by looking up that word on Dictionary.com. Oh well. LOL.

It was a lucky mistake.
It lets us all have the opportunity to see Mrs. Bucket's huge vocabulary on anatomy.

Hear Again · 11-12-2008, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Bottesini

It was a lucky mistake.
It lets us all have the opportunity to see Mrs. Bucket's huge vocabulary on anatomy.

True.

Hear Again · 11-12-2008, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by SimplyMints

Don't worry, I didn't even know that word. I did try looking it up on dictionary.com, and it isn't there. However, I do know the word without the "sch" in front of it, so I assumed that's what it meant. Out of curiosity, I went just now to dictionary.com and looked it up with the "sch" removed, and found it.

I'm glad I'm not alone, SimplyMints.

If Mrs. Bucket would have written the word minus the "sh," that I would have understood.

society's_child · 11-12-2008, 02:32 PM

Trying to speak english and sign at the same time- definitely screws me up. Either my english is jumbled or my signing is too english.

I won't be an interpreter anytime soon, that's for sure.

Hear Again · 11-13-2008, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by society's_child

Trying to speak english and sign at the same time- definitely screws me up. Either my english is jumbled or my signing is too english.

I won't be an interpreter anytime soon, that's for sure.

society's_child,

The only time Sim-Com can be done with any degree of accuracy is when signing in English word order (PSE or SEE). For obvious reasons, it doesn't work too well for ASL.

typeingtornado19 · 11-13-2008, 02:20 AM

so the funniest mistake i have made in ASL lately is talking to the chair of the ASL department in my school and fingerspelling easy because i cant remember the sign and not being able to do it! i kept spelling it dyslexic.

society's_child · 11-13-2008, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Hear Again

society's_child,

The only time Sim-Com can be done with any degree of accuracy is when signing in English word order (PSE or SEE). For obvious reasons, it doesn't work too well for ASL.

I understand and believe your statement 100%.

Hear Again · 11-13-2008, 09:07 AM

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I understand and believe your statement 100%.

society's_child,

I hope my last post didn't come across as condescending because I didn't mean for it to be. If it did, I apologize.

Hear Again · 11-13-2008, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by typeingtornado19

so the funniest mistake i have made in ASL lately is talking to the chair of the ASL department in my school and fingerspelling easy because i cant remember the sign and not being able to do it! i kept spelling it dyslexic.

I've made that kind of mistake before!

In fact, when I started learning PSE (which is what I began with followed by SEE and then ASL) I had to fingerspell almost every other word because I couldn't remember all of my signs.

typeingtornado19 · 11-13-2008, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Hear Again

I've made that kind of mistake before!

In fact, when I started learning PSE (which is what I began with followed by SEE and then ASL) I had to fingerspell almost every other word because I couldn't remember all of my signs.

yup, i felt so dumb, i was talking to the department chair... eeeek.

society's_child · 11-13-2008, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Hear Again

society's_child,

I hope my last post didn't come across as condescending because I didn't mean for it to be. If it did, I apologize.

No, of course not. No need to apologize, I knew what you meant.

Hear Again · 11-13-2008, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by society's_child

No, of course not. No need to apologize, I knew what you meant.

Cool.

Hear Again · 11-13-2008, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by typeingtornado19

yup, i felt so dumb, i was talking to the department chair... eeeek.

Did he/she (the department chair) say anything to you about the fact that you inaccurately fingerspelled the word "easy?"

Ti-girl · 11-13-2008, 10:32 AM

I wear aids so I have some hearing, but when I play sports, I take them out because a) it's either a water sport
b) I can't fit them under my helmet

I was catching and our best pitcher, who is also deaf, was having an off day. So I called a timeout and went to the mound and I was PISSED OFF. So our "fingers were flying" (as my mother puts it) and the umpire came out and kicked both of us out of the game.

It took us, and our coaches a few minutes to figure out what happened.

Turns out he thought we were flashing gang signs or something. Thankfully we hadn't left the field yet. My dad had to hop over the fence and explain it. He thought it was hilarious.

Me, not so much.

Dixie · 11-15-2008, 09:15 PM

My oh my, look at dem' deaf thugs!

Im still a very new signer, and Im sure Ive made my share of mistakes that I havent been corrected on yet, but I will learn and move on.

typeingtornado19 · 11-16-2008, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Hear Again

Did he/she (the department chair) say anything to you about the fact that you inaccurately fingerspelled the word "easy?"

nope.

11-01-2008, 02:45 AM	#31 (permalink)
SimplyMints I love all my ponies! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Eastern Oregon, USA Posts: 1,183 Blog Entries: 1	I'm not even sure if I should even say this, but I swear to you I am not making this up! I went to my sister's for a Halloween party she invited me too, and it was totally hearing. My sister was the only one there who knew sign, and I was the only one there who had no hearing. Anyway, suddenly, well from what it looked like to me, suddenly, her husband walked out the door and drove away. I asked my sister where he went. She signed back, "Begging vagina pie?" I suddenly remembered there was supposed to be pizza at this party. I still don't know where the first two words came from (perhaps some strange way of saying pepperoni????????), but I'm sure "pie" was supposed to be "pizza," so I showed her one of the many ways to sign pizza, but I didn't get around to the rest of it because she got interrupted. He later returned with pepperoni pizza. __________________ "A world that is not on the verge of annihilation can still be perfectly stimulating, and definitely not boring." - Andrea Berlinghoff "Thanks to all my friends, I've learned that being different also makes me special. Besides, the only way to truly shine is to be yourself." - Lily Lightly

11-10-2008, 08:12 PM	#32 (permalink)
SimplyMints I love all my ponies! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Eastern Oregon, USA Posts: 1,183 Blog Entries: 1	My dad asked me if I was a toilet today. I think "toilet" is his favourite sign since he's learned it. __________________ "A world that is not on the verge of annihilation can still be perfectly stimulating, and definitely not boring." - Andrea Berlinghoff "Thanks to all my friends, I've learned that being different also makes me special. Besides, the only way to truly shine is to be yourself." - Lily Lightly

11-11-2008, 07:58 PM	#37 (permalink)
lsfoster Some kind of awesome... Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Boston Posts: 432	Okay, I'll admit to my recent one. I went out with a deaf friend who's Indian, and he ordered Indian food, so I explained that I don't like it because it's too spicy. So he showed me the sign for spicy, which he does as a 5 hand coming from under the chin while wiggling the fingers. Next time we went out, there were a few of us, and I was asking him how to say "peppers", and my friend responded by moving a 5 hand with wiggling fingers horizontally to the side.... Needless to say I got laughed at a lot for thinking that was the sign. __________________ "Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."

11-11-2008, 08:17 PM	#38 (permalink)
Mrs Bucket has retired from AllDeaf. Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 2,348	Ok get this, growing up in front of Deaf adults, I was exposed to "graphic ASL" meaning the signing of schwang was really out there to see! A new signer mistook the sign of the large schwang as "milkshake". Much later on, we were ordering and I decided to allow the new signer to order for us and she signed that "huge schwang" sign for milkshake! Who said deaf people can't shriek?! __________________ My new nieces/nephews are arriving soon!

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11-11-2008, 07:54 PM	#36 (permalink)
The_One HOH Learning ASL :) Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Houston, Tx Posts: 13	My sister once tried to say "help her" (as with the left hand palm up and the sideways "A" on top) during a class presentation and instead she signed "sh*t", the teacher noticed, and he wasn't amused but he's cool so he didn't say anything but I could not stop laughing.

11-12-2008, 02:32 PM	#48 (permalink)
society's_child venustrus unus ;-) Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: The big MD Posts: 3,876 Blog Entries: 5	Trying to speak english and sign at the same time- definitely screws me up. Either my english is jumbled or my signing is too english. I won't be an interpreter anytime soon, that's for sure. __________________ ...just passing thru, y'all.

11-13-2008, 02:20 AM	#50 (permalink)
typeingtornado19 Have a good day! Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 3,142 Blog Entries: 1	so the funniest mistake i have made in ASL lately is talking to the chair of the ASL department in my school and fingerspelling easy because i cant remember the sign and not being able to do it! i kept spelling it dyslexic.

11-13-2008, 10:32 AM	#58 (permalink)
Ti-girl Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 11	I wear aids so I have some hearing, but when I play sports, I take them out because a) it's either a water sport b) I can't fit them under my helmet I was catching and our best pitcher, who is also deaf, was having an off day. So I called a timeout and went to the mound and I was PISSED OFF. So our "fingers were flying" (as my mother puts it) and the umpire came out and kicked both of us out of the game. It took us, and our coaches a few minutes to figure out what happened. Turns out he thought we were flashing gang signs or something. Thankfully we hadn't left the field yet. My dad had to hop over the fence and explain it. He thought it was hilarious. Me, not so much.

11-15-2008, 09:15 PM	#59 (permalink)
Dixie Biggest Wimp of AllDeaf Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Arkansas Posts: 5,942	My oh my, look at dem' deaf thugs! Im still a very new signer, and Im sure Ive made my share of mistakes that I havent been corrected on yet, but I will learn and move on. __________________ Visit my Deaf Blog Signature banner created by me, please do not steal!

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