Recent content by Mountain Man

I've heard that even the very best "lip readers" can only achieve 40% accuracy and that it should be called "lip guessing" instead.

Do you sign? And do you associate with others who sign? That might change your perspective about how "limiting" it is.

It's deafness a disability?

I'm hearing with an 11-year old Deaf son. One of my favorites is when somebody asks him something, and I immediately interpret it for him. People are sometimes startled and will say, "Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't know he was deaf!" I usually say, "Why are you sorry?" and then watch them squirm as...

Looks like another ASL student trying to cheat on their homework. :roll:

Classifiers are awesome.

Then every once in a while you have a boneheaded interpreter who tries to correct the Deaf person.

Just to defend my teachers, they were either seasoned ASL interpreters or Deaf, so they weren't just going by what was in some book or DVD.

What ASL students are taught and what people actually do in the "wild" are not always the same. :P

I learned it as- 21: L handshape, wiggle the thumb (some people wiggle the 1 finger instead) 22: V handshape bounce twice from side to side 23: 3 handshape, wiggle the middle finger 25: 5 handshape, wiggle the middle finger Every thing else is L followed by the number.

Translating artistic expressions like music and poetry is a whole different matter than straight translations from English. You really need to look past the language and find the deep meaning of the text. For example, the first lines of the song, "How deep the Father's love for us; How vast...

I don't think there's any problem with asking if they would like you to mediate. Just make sure you're actually capable of doing it competently. It may be that they got annoyed because you simply weren't a very good interpreter. Alternatively, your interpretation may have been effective, and...

The differences tend to center around core doctrinal issues and aren't always readily apparent without some study. For instance, John 1:1 in the JW text says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was a god" while a Christian Bible will say, "In the beginning...

It's a little harder to test what you're suggesting because not every deaf person has equal access to English, and most deaf will naturally gravitate to sign language if exposed to it because it's the most natural form of communication for a deaf individual. I think the primary goal here is to...

Sites like that tend to have little benefit because a series of still images looks nothing like "live" fingerspelling, especially in the context of a sentence.