I’m learning a bit of sign language since my wife will likely be fully deaf inside 10 years, and one day we were in a food court and I saw two people arguing in ASL.
One of them started getting larger and more abrupt with their movements and the other interrupted to sign “Don’t yell at me.”
I wasn’t paying enough attention to know what they were arguing about, but it made me giggle a bit at the phrasing.
The choice of words reminds me of one of the Comedy Central roasts. Can’t remember which one, but Marlee Matlin was one of the roasters. She’s deaf, but she can speak just fine.
Part of her set was, halfway through, she got Gilbert Gottfried (also on the dais) to “be her voice” for the rest of it. So he read her lines from the teleprompter in his way plus or minus a few tangents. Then this…
Uh, have you ever seen a heated argument in ASL? It’s intense.
To a blind person, a deaf argument would sound exactly like a slap fight from the fury of signs flying back and forth.
I’m learning a bit of sign language since my wife will likely be fully deaf inside 10 years, and one day we were in a food court and I saw two people arguing in ASL.
One of them started getting larger and more abrupt with their movements and the other interrupted to sign “Don’t yell at me.”
I wasn’t paying enough attention to know what they were arguing about, but it made me giggle a bit at the phrasing.
The choice of words reminds me of one of the Comedy Central roasts. Can’t remember which one, but Marlee Matlin was one of the roasters. She’s deaf, but she can speak just fine.
Part of her set was, halfway through, she got Gilbert Gottfried (also on the dais) to “be her voice” for the rest of it. So he read her lines from the teleprompter in his way plus or minus a few tangents. Then this…
I lost it 😆