Sorry to get OT but, could you explain this please. I don't get it. Why is it not good to tell you that it was beautiful??
You know, I was going to ask the same thing. Is it not PC to suggest a different method of communication can be beautiful? If the "reading" itself is considered beautiful, can't the "signing" be as well?
Wondering the same thing as I often find sign language to be an expressive and beautiful form of communication, hoping someone will enlighten us
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I agree with you that American Sign Language is a beautiful language. It's just that not often do we...or at least I don't...hear people say the English language is beautiful. After someone reads a poem a listener might say, "Oh, that is beautiful" but they are usually refering to the poem not the language used to convey it.
It is not that it's NOT good to tell me the signing is beautiful...it's just for me there is so much more than just the way my hands move that make the signing beautiful. It is the interpretation that is beautiful, IMO, because that is what I am doing. I can know how to sign ASL, but that doesn't mean that I know how to interpret English into ASL...that's a whole different ball of wax. So, I suppose for me it is the "signing" v. "interpreting" notion that bothers me a bit when I'm told by someone who does not understand the process of interpreting that makes me want to explain that there IS so much more.
Over the years, I have learned to do like I said...just smile and say thank you. I guess I would just like for people to understand there is more to interpreting than knowing two languages. When I was a student in my interpreter program, my Deaf instructors encouraged us to also educate about the profession, as it's only been around for about 30 years. So, sometimes I do want to educate...it's just very complex...the language, the culture, the interpreting process.
It isn't a matter of being politically correct. For me, it would be wonderful for someone to say the work (interpretation) was beautiful rather than the signing. But that is just me...an interpreter in southern Illinois and I am only one in my profession and I'm sure there are other opinions on the matter.
I don't know if that enlighten you, but since I was the one who made the comment, I can only speak for myself.
came through for me. I wanted to see Marlee Matlin so badly, but didn't think I'd get to since in past years she's there earlier than my trip (12/18 -12/25). So, now I've redone our planning so we can go see her on 12/19 and after all his grumbling, DH actually would like to see Gary Sinise on Christmas Eve (which is what I had originally planned.) So, if DS isn't so opposed we'll be doing CP twice.
. Price tags over here already include the tax so the price you see is what you pay. The price for the top package is $45.99, so how much will I actually end up paying (I don't know how much tax will be added on.)
