Is this understandable in Deaf Culture?

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Is this concept only appropriate to a hearing culture
or would Deaf people find this funny since every one
laughs and every one knows when something is fake
like some laughter on TV?
 

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Come on guys. Your not going to hurt my feelings!
I want to know how many Deaf people get the reference
to "canned laughter" and if you do or don't weather
ASL is your primary language or Other language is
primary? Thanks
 
Hmm... I usually can tell if a deaf person is faking its laugh. I know what a canned laughter is, many TV sitcoms use laughter tracks. Not as common as it used to be though.

Sometimes, they even captioned these parts.
 
Banjo said:
Hmm... I usually can tell if a deaf person is faking its laugh. I know what a canned laughter is, many TV sitcoms use laughter tracks. Not as common as it used to be though.

Sometimes, they even captioned these parts.
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Yes but when the laughter is captioned, does the joke of
it being fake laughter come across? And is the fake laughter
of a Deaf person signed in any way? Some times English
speaking people will say something like, "HaHa that was
sooooo funny" Meaning of course they didn't think it was
very funny at all. Is their a sign that would combine
laughter and sarchasim?
 
I would use the "HA, HA" sign. One or both hands, H-shape with thumbs up, flicking back and forth. Appropriate facial expression, of course.
 
Reba said:
I would use the "HA, HA" sign. One or both hands, H-shape with thumbs up, flicking back and forth. Appropriate facial expression, of course.
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Maybe this would work to indicate canned laughter then.
Because canned laughter "sounds" fake.
Without the facial expression this would "appear" fake too.
 
Reba said:
I would use the "HA, HA" sign. One or both hands, H-shape with thumbs up, flicking back and forth. Appropriate facial expression, of course.
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Yes, I'm familiar with that. It was a popular sign back in high school.
 
Reba said:
I would use the "HA, HA" sign. One or both hands, H-shape with thumbs up, flicking back and forth. Appropriate facial expression, of course.
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Yeppers. Facial expression would convey the sarcasm the same way tone of voice would...many times, even better!
 
Well I just emailed Keith Wann and he said the "canned"
part of this joke didn't really come across in the joke,
even for him. So I asked what if...

You have about 12 plastic arms on sticks, with the sign either HAHA
or laughter and when something funny happens, you wave those
arms all around! He said that would be funny and the cultural
equivalent to canned laughter! But better yet, this litttle Hearie
person made Keith Wann laugh! I will walk on cloud nine for days~:giggle:
 
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