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I'm a hearie, learning ASL (or at least trying). One of the hardest things for me, and one of the biggest stumbling blocks, is that NO ONE seems to be able to definitively define whether a sign is ASL or PSE/SEE. They give you general hints like "well, if it starts with a letter, it's probably...

I'm taking us even a little more off topic, but I find that very surprising. What if you have a messed up, drug addicted parent who starts prostituting their child? German law allows this?! The State (and therefore the Law) has a role in protecting those who cannot protect themselves, even...

650 signs and counting! :dance2:

Oh my gosh! Accents, accents, accents!! I'm in ASL Level 2 at the local Deaf Action Center, and we've had 4 separate teachers in about 8 weeks (they just moved to a new building and they're having some logistics problems!). The accents are driving my crazy! One of my teachers always turns...

You're funny. :lol:

I found this little snippet from the Washington Post to be sort of interesting: That doesn't sound like a very wise way to respond to the question posed. What is the reader supposed to understand from her response? That she believes "might makes right?" Heck, if that's the case, why...

That seems a little dismissive. Someone who is culturally Deaf isn't necessarily "fighting tooth and nail to preserve a culture of dependence". The Deaf people I know are actually quite self reliant. I certainly have nothing to gain by trying to keep the Deaf dependent on anything. I'm just a...

Yes, but even as a hearing person, I can empathize with their plight. Imagine if someone appeared on a press conference one day and said "African Americanism can now be 'cured' with this little device." Huh? "Cured"? I think Deafness is both a disability and a culture. It's really...

One of the best pieces of advise I ever got just before my wife and I were married was from a pastor, and he said: If you find that your inlaws are creating problems in your marriage, move away. For some reason, some inlaws tend to think that they know what their child or their child's...

My brother-in-law became nerve deaf after surgery to remove some tumors. You sound like you have something on common with him (late onset deafness). What caused your hearing loss?

Hahaha!!!

Simon, FYI... when I download the sign for month (the one Jamie did that seems to be broken on the site), it plays just fine. So I think something must be messed up on the server side -- maybe something happened when it tried to convert to Flash? --Cal

Simon, I think I've stumbled upon a little bit of a bug. It's not a huge deal, but it could probably confuse someone. Basically, it looks like if you upload a sign and it gets converted to Flash, if you go back and assign a clipart image to it, it won't use the clipart image back on the...

I'm using Windows XP with IE, and I have Windows Movie Maker, so it's kind of weird that they don't work for me. If I could download the file itself, I could run it through GraphEdit so that it could tell me what's wrong (I probably have a bad splitter in the WMV rendering stack or something)...

Wow, after seeing those poll numbers (assuming they're right), I have no idea why Jane would even want this position. She's crazy. Over 2/3 of the faculty say they find her unacceptable. Over 80% of the students say they find her unacceptable. She's going to find it impossible to govern and...

Hey Simon, There are a number of signs that have been uploaded recently that don't play on my machine (probably a goofy codec). They weren't converted to Flash either. I suspect that the signer doesn't even know they're not working, because they probably work on his machine. You might want...

Good question.... maybe finger spell it and then sign "orange"?

Has your daughter seen the animals? My daughters signed most of them. It was a bit of a trick getting them to stand still and do the sign. They kept giggling and acting silly.

I suspect that Simon doesn't mind if hearies sign. It's an open site, like a wikipedia type thing, so it is open to everybody. (Right, Simon?) One thing I'd really like to see, Simon, is some kind of "PSE/SEE/ASL" checkbox on each sign. I know for sure that I'm putting both PSE and ASL...

It kind of seems like they already are reliving it. This time I.K. Jordan is Jerry Lee, and Jane Fernandes is Elisabeth Zinser. To me it seems like the whole situation could be resolved if the university gave more decision making authority to student government. Why don't they make the...