Weehaaaaaa!!!!

This was a fascinating book, although it’s very easy to overlook. It’s a slender little book, barely 100 pages including the intro, text, list of signs, and references. Plus, fully half the book simply lists acceptable name-signs in alphabetic order. So if you’re a fluent ASL speaker, this book probably won’t even […]

Got tipped off about this little trailer…
WOOOT! ohboyohboyohboy, I can’t wait!

“Mouth” is a fun word, isn’t it? Could be the mouth on your face that you open and close, eat food with, kiss with, etc. Could be “mouthy” — that mouthy kid who always has a smart-alec answer for everything (and gets him in trouble). Could be an opening of […]

OK, I confess that my last post was more a reaction to another post that stated NAD uses “visual language” instead of ASL and I neglected to investigate the facts. However, one of my commenters asked where on the NAD site do they use “visual language” in the first place?
Um.
Very interesting. OK, a […]

What is a visual language? I really hadn’t thought about it. Seeing it on NAD’s site, it seems obvious to me that it’s another phrase for ASL. Still, why not use “ASL”? Why this longer locution?
What other visual languages are there? Well SEE1 and 2 aren’t languages. But they […]

In which I describe some good new words I learned from the last vlog fiasco and in which I describe my observations at the last deaf meet I went to.
Transcript:

OK, first of all I’m having a LOT more fun vlogging than I thought. I did not expect to already have a couple of them up at this point, once I had done my first one. But I guess I’m like a kid with a new toy. Anyway, I have a longer […]

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I should note, I am writing these sorts of articles hopefully for the benefit of parents of deaf children trying to decide what’s best for their children, by describing my experiences and thoughts. This isn’t a paean to self-pity; rather this is something I’m beginning to recognize now that I’ve been learning ASL for […]