Category: Language
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Bimodal interpreters, not just sign language interpreters
Sign language interpreters are spoken language interpreters too To talk about our work, it helps to have efficient terms that accurately define it. Typically, we ASL/English interpreters call ourselves “sign language interpreters,” while we call (for example) Spanish/English interpreters “spoken language interpreters.” Yet signed language is only half our language pair; the other half is spoken language; therefore,…
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Fun with French — a language learner’s laughter
I just got home after staying in Quebec for a week, and I encountered some words and phrases I found very funny. Here are some of my travel notes. Life is a Cabaret — And so is a tray! When I ordered two coffees at a Starbucks, they asked me if I wanted a cabaret…
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ocapLab Sign Language Avatar : ASL, BSL, IS, NZSL, LSF
Wow.
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Of course there are dialects of ASL. Why wouldn’t there be?
Someone on Google+ today asked me what I thought of the article All Things Linguistic — Dialects of Sign Language: Black ASL. I responded with the following comment, which I felt should be shared here: Yes, I’m familiar with this. The segregation of black Deaf children in black Deaf schools, and the segregation of black and…
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Translations for CHA-HEAD other than ARROGANT
There is a sign in ASL some call CHA-HEAD because “cha” is the mouth morpheme used in ASL for something big, and the sign for BIG is made around the head level to indicate a “big head” (figuratively speaking). The formal gloss for this sign is ARROGANT (glosses are conventionally written in ALL CAPS). Since ASL…
Daniel Greene 