• Iced Raktajino@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Uh, have you ever seen a heated argument in ASL? It’s intense.

    To a blind person, a deaf argument would sound exactly like a slap fight from the fury of signs flying back and forth.

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        1 year ago

        The choice of words reminds me of one of the Comedy Central roasts. Can’t remember which one, but Marlee Matlin was one of the roasters. She’s deaf, but she can speak just fine.

        Part of her set was, halfway through, she got Gilbert Gottfried (also on the dais) to “be her voice” for the rest of it. So he read her lines from the teleprompter in his way plus or minus a few tangents. Then this…

        I lost it 😆

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        1 year ago

        During one ASL argument I witnessed, outside a Six Flags if I remember correctly, I saw something that stuck with me. One person literally turned their back from the other person. It never really struck me until then that it’s so hard to ignore someone yelling at you, but all you have to do with ASL is not look.