According to the Deaf teacher I had the pleasure to meet during a translation course, while the interpreters on British TV usually have the facial expression of planks, that’s not really what BSL should be. She also said that, in an effort to avoid dialectal signs, the BBC version ended up being “beige”. You know: not so much colorless as the most bleh color in the world.
It’s the same with Spanish and Catalan SLs: most of the TV interpreters only make a facial gesture once or twice in a whole newscast, but when you see people talking on the street they talk with their whole bodies.
The ASL sign for “horny” and “understand” are somewhat similar, or at least when I took ASL it seemed to me that one of the ways of signing “horny” (there are a couple at least) are similar.
I made the mistake in class of signing “I’m horny” instead of “I understand” more than once. The teacher and some of the other students would crack up when it happened. My friend that I took the class with would bang her head on the desk and just laugh. She knows me well and knew that my mistake was accurate ahem of how I’m usually feeling.
Someone asked if ASL was that dramatic – yes it can be, as is masturbating :D. My cat is certainly entertained by watching … err…but that was another thread.
We saw the touring show of Young Frankenstein, and one of the funniest things was when the ASL interpreter signed “schwannstucker,” and the guy playing Igor stopped the whole show for several minutes of riffing on the sign (in a very complimentary way toward the interpreter). The actor playing Frederick could barely keep it together once the scene resumed. Anyway, the word was performed just as forcefully as you might imagine, to convey the proper meaning.
not the kind of conversation you want to walk into the middle of
isn’t this the kind of material thats better left to the written word? after all, telling someone (thru sign) to stop masterbating looks an awful lot like telling a person to masterbate, and the wrong ideas might ensue
When I was in grade school, there was this girl who I think was JW. She brought in these pamphlets, full of interracial people doing things, and telling you not to masturbate. We took one and giggled, because we had no idea what masturbation really was except for something to accuse your friends of doing. The school authorities quashed it pretty quick and confiscated them. I think I might remember one part showing a depressed girl and suggesting she would be driven to suicide by masturbation.
One of the things that JW seem to do well, perhaps too well, is portray diversity. Not only do they show people of different races, they also show people wearing ethnic garb, implying that being one of them doesn’t require that one abandon their own culture to become a drone. Interestingly enough, the matter of uniformity of dress is very much not a new issue in Christianity. Apparently the Pope was asked in the 9th century whether women from a non-Christian background needed to stop wearing trousers in order to conform to proper Christian behavior, and the answer was of course not and that asking such a question was immature. It’s interesting that many Christian groups today do, in fact, require or encourage such.
Of course they need to stop that. They are already deaf, do they want to go blind as well?
When a deaf person masturbates, does God have to find a deaf kitten to kill?
It’s obvious why that guy looks so incredibly sad.
Anyway . . . I worked with a JW lady for several years, and not once did she tell me to stop masturbating.
