Tagged With: sign-language
Scottish Highlands Finger Spelling
Thanks to The World in Words, I learned about “Scottish Finger-Signing.” Apparently Deaf children in the Scottish Highlands used to grow up using exclusively fingerspelling, rather than sign language. Now, TWIW uses the word “language” to describe this, and I disagree with that – it is a manual code for English, not a proper language … Continue reading
NTUT and Gallaudet
(Posted this on the Gallaudet blog, but of course I’m copying it here!) Hey everybody! I am at my internship in Japan, and I thought I would tell you a little bit about the differences between Gallaudet and Tsukuba University of Technology. The academic culture is a little different here. In the US, it is … Continue reading
Week Two Begins
On Sunday it rained and rained. I wandered around Asakusa a little bit, bought a couple of items from the shops in the covered outdoor mall, and then settled into a Starbucks to nurse a mocha and ponder my next move. The #1 thing I wanted to do that day was wander around town – … Continue reading
Wubi Wub Wub
I’m writing this in a draft in Gmail because I can’t remember my WordPress password. The reason I can’t remember is I’m not on my normal computer operating system. raisinbottom emailed me today with questions about Ubuntu, and he mentioned Wubi, so I got all hyped up and spent the evening fighting with it. Again. … Continue reading
I’m on Sorenson
I just installed Sorenson‘s EnVision SL software! I called up VRS and told the interpreter I was just testing, so I know it works. So if anybody wants to call me direct, use my first name at my domain name. I don’t have it set up to use audio, so please make sure you have … Continue reading
A Couple of Videos
I had promised kgola a little video with a couple of signs, and quarterling seemed interested too (?), so I made this video blog. It also gets into the new Gallaudet president a little bit, and at the end is an introduction of Amanita. :MK:, my sister-in-law, walks by in the background! I still had … Continue reading
Zille’s Questions
I saw zille had posted a meme offering to interview her readers, so I signed up to be interviewed! Here are my answers. If you would like me to ask you five questions, feel free to request that in a comment. Of course you’re under no obligation to answer, or to offer to do the … Continue reading
ASL Class Comments
I had been told the evaluations from the class I taught this weekend were good, but unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to read them. Fortunately one of the students posted some thoughts – thanks, Kit! The first class I attended was the ASL class. I was very impressed with this class, because the presenter … Continue reading
BME Shirt
I finally rediscovered the link for how to get a free BME t-shirt: you review experiences submitted by website users. They’re not looking for heavy copyediting or anything like that, just verification that the submissions are actually about body modification, that they are not written entirely in netspeak, and so forth. And once you have … Continue reading
Video Blog 003
This is my third video blog entry! Putfile was being screwy, so I looked for alternative hosts and came across ZippyVideos. (If you want to sign up, please let me know so I can give you a referral link. Or don’t, up to you.) Anyway, this is still in WMV format, because for some reason … Continue reading