12-11-2013, 12:28
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Poser Alert
Seems that posers are everywhere.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/...-fake-21173616
The sign-language interpreter on stage at Nelson Mandela's globally broadcast memorial service was a faker who was just waving his arms around meaninglessly, advocates for the deaf said Wednesday.
The unidentified man seen around the world on television next to leaders including United States President Barack Obama "was moving his hands around but there was no meaning in what he used his hands for," Bruno Druchen, the federation's national director, told The Associated Press.
There are so many things that can be said here . . .
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12-11-2013, 12:32
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\sign *can you hear me* /sign
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12-11-2013, 18:31
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I'm thinking he really was interpreting Obummer. Garbage in, garbage out = accurate interpretation. What else did you expect?
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12-11-2013, 18:38
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Maybe it was hand jive.
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12-11-2013, 19:04
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I've always thought that having these signers at Dim rallies was just pandering with the "see we really care about you" card.
We bought our house in CA from a deaf couple that had hearing twin girls our son's age. They went to school together from kindergarten to HS graduation. We saw the parents often and always conversed with them. We couldn't sign but they could read lips and their daughters filled in any "unusual" words that they didn't understand. Those were usually about our work in the airlines since there were some work terms that they had never encountered. The husband was a professor at the local college and the wife was an actress.
BTW, the house had some very interesting features, some of which we kept or adapted.
A bit of trivia: Vin Scully, the announcer for the Dodgers, took lip reading lessons so he could tell what was being said between players, coachs, and officials on the field.
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12-11-2013, 21:47
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TIA.
That takes some balls.
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12-11-2013, 21:50
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TIA.
That takes some balls.
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Naaah, you're thinking of tea bagging not sign language. 
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12-11-2013, 21:53
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Maybe someone realized at the last minute that they forgot to include a sign language interpreter and just asked someone to step in and act.
Waving one's hands around wildly while communicating in sign language means crazy.
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12-11-2013, 21:59
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Quote:
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Naaah, you're thinking of tea bagging not sign language. |
That may have been a more effective communication method, if you think about it.
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12-12-2013, 12:21
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Peregrino
I'm thinking he really was interpreting Obummer. Garbage in, garbage out = accurate interpretation. What else did you expect?
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Could not agree more.
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