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I don't know what you can do about the past meetings, but next time you have a meeting scheduled, inform your PO that you officially request the terp that you are legally entitled to. Then if one isn't at the meeting, you need to decide if you refuse to do anything but sign or if you just give...

Well, now that I've been here for a couple of months, I suppose I should officially say hi! I'm in Madison, WI. It's been fun so far being here. I can already tell which AD members I would totally love to have a beer with! (And I am from WI, I know my beer!) On another note, it would be...

A single female friend of mine once got a group of gals all together for Valentine's day. They dressed up pretty in black dresses and went out for ribs--the one thing you probably shouldn't go out to eat on a date. They had the time of their lives. The waiter loved their group, and they got...

Well, it depends on the girl. If she is a supermodel who probably gets hit on all the time, you're right, you would really have to stand out with the small talk. And, frankly, if you are super gorgeous that would help too! First impressions are really all you get in a bar anyhow. But if a...

Well, the work issue here is that someone is a whiny little baby who is seriously paranoid. I work with people like that. I think we all do. Experience with these folks teaches us to document EVERYTHING and to make sure we cover our own butts. Odds are your boss probably thinks this person...

You could try to get your flirt on at a coffee shop. A lot less noise than a bar, and you don't have to worry about it being the alcohol talking as you get to know her. In a bar, the microphone might weird her out if you just walk up randomly...I'm pretty sure she'd think it was some sort of...

I am with ya, sister. I have only once had a Valentine's Day date, and that was simply because we decided to meet on Saturday and it happened to be Valentine's Day. But since I'm too old (37), a girl, and live in WI, I don't think you and I will be sharing that special day. Best of luck to ya!

I gave him a strange sideways "What the heck?" look while signing "no". Then he explained that people in India sell their organs. It was just the most immediate example I could think of. I knew that there had to be SOME reason he was connecting my sale of plasma to being Indian, just wasn't...

If my high school French serves me it is a project to create a Deaf friendly TV channel in Ivory Coast, or some other thing to make TV and news/information accessible to Deaf there. Good idea for a project, though I don't know of anyone with funds, deaf or hearing. And with so many scams out...

No, it isn't a language issue of me not understanding, but someone saying something that doesn't really make sense. This is an awful example, but may make it clear. I told a co-worker that I was donating/selling plasma. He singed to me "Are you Indian?" I totally understood what he signed but...

The "pizza" sign is a part of the female anatomy. I teach high school Spanish, and those are the words most of my kids want to know. I think it is immature, and kind of funny, but probably also seems easy to learn. I mean, swear words are meant to be said quickly in moments of frustration, so...

But if you speak/hear/lip read on the first dates, he may not really appreciate the need you have/will have for signing. So you may not be able to tell that soon if he would really learn, or if he is just saying what he knows you want him to. I would say you will know when he signs up for a...

I would not split it, but maybe use the money for a special date out at a restaurant that is more expensive than normal.

I have another one...is there a convenient way to convey "I understand every sign you just used, but totally don't understand what your message is.". Y'know, I don't need it repeated, but need you to make your point some other way because you just make no sense.

I live in a very politically active city and my students often ask what certain debates are about. I explain the economic philosophies of the two major parties much like someone above did: the Republican party believes in giving money to the large corporations, which makes them able to afford to...

There are more expert ASL users here than I am, but I do know that idioms are unique expressions in one language that cannot translate word-for-word. So you have to focus on trying to express the IDEA, more than the specific words. So "when Tim walked in, Jack gave him cold shoulder" I would...

I followed the link someone posted somewhere on this forum to a hearing loss simulator (from Univ. of Wisconsin Whitewater, which is not far from me, actually). They had a link to a different site with a CI simulator, and it has several samples of speech through different CI channels and a...

I am on match, and don't get much notice now. It seems to go in spurts there with lots of new people and then you only see those same faces over and over. I am expecting I will probably meet anyone I date seriously through a friend, more than online. So I keep going out trying to meet people...

I am white and pretty much attracted to white guys, but if I met a great guy of a different race or nationality, I wouldn't say no just because of that. I would have to share core values with him, and if we were of different cultures we would both have to have a compromise attitude. That is...

Gosh, if I hadn't just sent my bank account to a Nigerian prince who needed help getting his fortune out of the country...