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What's that you said? I had my hair cut today. A fairly pedestrian activity, I suppose: washing the hair, snipping and clipping it, applying ridiculous amounts of mousse and blow drying the final product. I do all this in silence, of course, since once my hair's washed it's too wet for the hearing aids. The place that I go [...]
Language Wed, Nov 07 2007

What's that you said? Good heavens: With New Device, Police Shake, Rattle and Roll Meet the Rumbler. The high-tech blaster is being used along with the traditional siren. It is aimed at grabbing people's attention and getting them to make room for officers responding to emergencies, helping police navigate through traffic faster and safer. People can feel it from about 200 feet [...]
Tech Mon, Oct 29 2007

identity politics

What's that you said? I came across this article over the summer and was immediately struck by the obvious parallels: So lets just go back to segregation, then. I thought many of the things she had to say about the issues black children face in schools is very much like what deaf children face in schools. In [...]
Culture Sun, Oct 28 2007

Book Review: The Book of Name Signs

What's that you said? 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 register on your radar. Of [...]
Language Education Culture Sun, Jun 03 2007

What's that you said? "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 some kind, like the mouth of a cave. Or could be "mouthing" [...]
Language Culture Sun, May 20 2007

Book Review: Mindfield by John F. Egbert

What's that you said? I've just finished reading Mindfield by John F. Egbert, who kindly sent me a copy. I thought this was an excellent book, and I think it might be a good way to introduce issues surrounding deafhood and deaf culture via an enjoyable piece of fiction. As good as some other books are, some people just aren't the sort to wade through anything non-fiction. The [...]
Audism Culture Sat, May 12 2007

googling through www.nad.org

What's that you said? 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 quick google tutorial. If you go to [...]
Language Fri, May 11 2007

visual language?

What's that you said? 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 are visual representations for English which is a [...]
Audism Thu, May 10 2007

more on writing in english

What's that you said? I keep thinking about this whole issue about writing in English. In some ways I'm very fortunate, because, for whatever reason, I have always been a good writer. I think I benefitted from some very good teachers at just the right time along the way in my life, and perhaps there's a natural talent to writing; I don't know. One thing that might be [...]
Language Sun, May 06 2007

fun at a deaf meet

What's that you said? 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.
Language Culture Sun, May 06 2007

clarification on "two kinds of commenters"

What's that you said? Notes: I'm actually pretty proud of this one, as I did it all in one shot, on the first try. I didn't mean to re-do the whole Two Wolves story, but I love this story, and I had practiced it for the Silent Weekend but didn't do it. So I guess it popped right out The woman in the background's a hoot. I talked with her after I finished and [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Fri, May 04 2007

issues in translation

What's that you said? 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 one being processed through google video so while I wait for that one to finish, I want to address a topic that's [...]
Language Tech Thu, May 03 2007

two kinds of commenters

What's that you said? OK, this is the kind of crazy thing that pops into my head when falling asleep. Just a little humor — enjoy! Props to the vlogs that inspired this one
Tue, May 01 2007

blogging against disablism day

What's that you said? I've certainly come a long way since the last Blogging Against Disability day ("Sound out of Stone" and "Perceptions." Note that the latter holds some assumptions about the "Deaf community" that I no longer hold, although it's interesting to see me argue for what is Bi-Bi from a position of pretty much utter ignorance [...]
Tue, May 01 2007

english and asl skills

What's that you said? I'll get a transcript up later, must dash now! Hope the lighting's better...
Language Sun, Apr 29 2007

i shouldn't be astonished, i really shouldn't...

What's that you said? You know, on a theoretical level, I "understand" audism. I can see how the social structures have hearing down as the default in so many ways, above and beyond just the obvious ones. I can see how the state of being deaf is medicalized and so on. But on an emotional level, when I see examples of it, it just flabbergasts me. I mean, come on, [...]
Audism Sat, Apr 28 2007

brief comments on silent weekend

What's that you said? OK, before I completely lose my nerve, here's a vlog...after Amy's kind comments on some other ones, I thought I might as well post one here. Please be patient, I've only been learning ASL since January...it's a lot of fun, though! Pardon the mistakes, but if I keep revising till I'm happy with it, I'll be on version [...]
Language Tue, Apr 24 2007

how oralism limited my world

What's that you said? 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 the past few months. As a [...]
Language Audism Culture Thu, Apr 19 2007

why do the terms "oralist," "oral success," and "oral...

What's that you said? Over the last couple of months I have found myself objecting to the term "oralist," at least as applied to myself. In addition, the more I contemplate the terms "oral failure" and "oral success," the angrier I get. Why? Let's take "oralist" first. I can see that it's used in a fairly general term: [...]
Education Culture Tue, Apr 17 2007

thoughts on "is oralism child abuse?"

What's that you said? I found this question very interesting. Now, I am what would be considered an "oral success." However, like John, I am very careful, and actually have been for years: even not being aware of deaf culture, etc, I knew my story wasn't typical and should not be used to support oralism across the board. Looking back, I have two observations to make. I [...]
Language Mon, Apr 16 2007

What's that you said? So this last weekend I went to a Silent Weekend activity up in the local mountains. Not sure how high up it was, maybe 6,000 feet? Just above the treeline and up a rather convoluted mountain road. I hadn't been up here in a while and it was very good to smell the trees and see the stars in the sky at night! We bunked up in mall cabins of about 12 people [...]
Language Culture Mon, Apr 16 2007

Through Deaf Eyes: review

What's that you said? Well I finally got to see Through Deaf Eyes this morning (actually half last night and half this morning; it's been a busy few days). I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. I should note that my perspective on this is as an orally educated deaf person; I have been largely ignorant of deaf culture and history until now. While I knew the general outlines of the [...]
Media Thu, Apr 12 2007

some thoughts on "hearing loss"

What's that you said? I'm seeing various comments around the 'net indicating that for some, "hearing loss" is a reasonably acceptable umbrella term for all deafies, at least as used by hearies. I'm not that convinced, and I'd like to explain why... One thing I've noticed in reading through blogs by deaf people (and "deaf" I do [...]
Sun, Apr 08 2007

a question about introductions

What's that you said? One thing I'm noticing, when I go out to deaf gatherings, when I'm asked where I went to school, is that I'm having trouble conveying that I went to a plain school, no deaf or oral program at all. How would I best explain this? I sign school, mainstream, all children hearing, I only deaf child, and then they always ask for the name of the school and [...]
Sat, Apr 07 2007

What's that you said? OK, so I'm easily amused
Wed, Apr 04 2007

What's that you said? Hey, y'all! I decided to move my deaf related posts on LiveJournal to deafread's WP-MU blog, for a variety of reasons. First, I do know WP very well and like using it, second while LJ suits my purposes for a personal journal, it blows chunks with comments, especially from non LJ folks, and y'all have a tendency to leave lots of comments on my deaf [...]
Wed, Apr 04 2007

What's that you said? I went to a local meet & greet for deaf folks last Friday. Most of the people seemed to be hearing (interpreters in progress I suppose), but there was one guy there who was a real story teller (told a couple of hilarious stories, including one between a dad and his little son, who beat the pants off him at video games). I didn't get all of it, but the gist [...]
Wed, Apr 04 2007

What's that you said? So, I'm trying to watch Through Deaf Eyes...and it appears that my cable provider IS NOT TRANSMITTING ANY CAPTIONS FOR **ANY** OF THE CHANNELS IT IS BROADCASTING. Oh, boy, are they going to get an EARFUL from me first thing tomorrow morning. IT HAD BETTER BE BACK ON BY THE NEXT BROADCAST. Yes, according to my local listings, it shows again Thursday night [...]
Wed, Apr 04 2007

book review: Forbidden Signs

What's that you said? Forbidden Signs is a book that traces the history of sign language in the United States and how and why oralism attempted to obliterate signing and replace it with lip reading and speech. As the author himself notes, the history is quite complex and even though he takes a detailed look at various aspects of it, there are many other strands. However, he blew my socks [...]
Wed, Mar 14 2007

book review: Forbidden Signs

What's that you said? Forbidden Signs is a book that traces the history of sign language in the United States and how and why oralism attempted to obliterate signing and replace it with lip reading and speech. As the author himself notes, the history is quite complex and even though he takes a detailed look at various aspects of it, there are many other strands. However, he blew my socks [...]
Wed, Mar 14 2007

deaf of hearing

What's that you said? I'm still thinking about whether I want to run with an acronym like DOH ;-) I'm afraid I'm a product of my times since I keep seeing that as "D'oh" a la Homer Simpson.But - Deaf of Hearing -- there are many of us and we're quite a varied lot. There's many of us, because something like 90% of deaf people are born to hearing parents. Ninety percent. And yet, I think [...]
Wed, Mar 07 2007

hey you guys, we're not lab rats...

What's that you said? This entry is sparked in part by seeing people, even well intentioned ones, ask the most inane and intrusive questions about the nature of deafness of deaf people or a group of deaf people. It's certainly not limited to deafness; I see this same behavior with respect anything that's "different" from the norm.The person asking such questions seems to feel perfectly [...]
Sun, Mar 04 2007

Interesting quotes from Forbidden Signs...

What's that you said? ...in light of recent conversations around here. (I do plan on a proper review, but I happened across this gem just now.)From Forbidden Signs, pp 103:Another measure of the oralist preoccupation with efficiency was the support they gave to a national movement to rationalize the spelling of English words. The late-nineteenth-century spelling reform movement was [...]
Sun, Mar 04 2007

reactions to People's Sign Language

What's that you said? This has been an interesting dialogue. Although I've already weighed in with a couple comments over at Toby's blog where he posted about it here and here, I found that I wanted to examine this in more detail so rather than clutter up a comments section, I'm posting here...In a nutshell, a deaf woman named Melissa, late to ASL, produced a series of videos, including [...]
Fri, Mar 02 2007

What's that you said? I have a few thoughts knocking around in my head, so bear with me as I attempt to sort through this. I've been mulling over Der Sankt's Treasure posts here and here. And then coincidentally I've been reading Forbidden Signs which notes that in the 1910's and 1920's a number of deaf people put together films of different people signing stories and such for later [...]
Fri, Mar 02 2007

What's that you said? Found a little goldmine of ASL classifier info...
Thu, Mar 01 2007

immoderately pleased with myself

What's that you said? So I got the webcam working with jcortese via Yahoo earlier this evening. Woot! I only had to sacrifice two goats...The webcam seems pretty choppy for ASL, though. I'm going to google around and see if that can be improved, we're both using cable and should be able to do better than that, though webcams ARE cheapie little things. I've got the sorenson VRP, but not [...]
Fri, Feb 23 2007

"do what works" doesn't work

What's that you said? Had an interesting email conversation a few days ago with jcortese and thought I'd put the gist of it here... jcortese: I can get behind the idea that you can't treat all deaf kids/adults the same way, because there isn't the same level of hearing in all of them. Like you said, HAs work great for you, even being 90dB down. Some people are 70dB or so and HAs don't [...]
Tue, Feb 20 2007

ASL->English dictionaries?

What's that you said? Hi, all. I was thinking, there must be dictionaries that are ASL->English, that is, that let you look up the English meaning of a sign. There's plenty that are the other way to look up the ASL sign for an English word. But half the time I spot a new sign I want to look it up and can't, unless I happen to be able to figure it out with captions, transcripts, or [...]
Tue, Feb 20 2007

progress in ASL

What's that you said? I'm pretty pleased with my progress in ASL and while I have a long way to go, it's interesting to see what a long way I've dome. Example, I passed along the Deaf Ninja video to a friend of mine, on the assumption that the pantomimes were enough to get the story across, and while he did appreciate the visual matrix effects, the metastory was completely lost on him. [...]
Fri, Feb 16 2007

cochlear implant equivalent for the blind...

What's that you said? Spotted this article this morning: Trials for 'bionic' eye implantsSounds like it works on the exact same principal as the cochlear implant (although I can't tell from this whether it destroys residual vision in order to do so). It does say it only applies to specific types of blindness.I think it will be interesting to see what the reaction and repercussions of this [...]
Fri, Feb 16 2007

question about "accents" in signing...

What's that you said? I had this question in one of my comments which has me curious, too. Since I'm not a fluent much less native signer, I don't know the answer:Ooh, you know what I'm wondering about now -- what are accents like in sign languages, from one to the other? You know how spoken languages have a musical unity to them, like the melodic nature of Spanish, the precise choppiness [...]
Fri, Feb 09 2007

thoughts on cued speech

What's that you said? I've been watching this video on cued speech and I must say I'm quite ambivalent.On the one hand, it blows all the other codes I've seen out the water. And it actually assists in lipreading. I mean, it's seamless. It works with the phonetics and words, and if you don't quite pick something up with lipreading, which is inevitable, you can fill in the gaps with the [...]
Thu, Feb 08 2007

Nicaraguan Sign Language

What's that you said? Just stumbled, courtesy of jcortese and ozarke, across the Nicaraguan Sign Language issue. It sounds absolutely fascinating: Here is an article from NY Times ("A Linguistic Big Bang"), plus some further discussion by ozarke on her journal. There's any number of fascinating aspects to this, but to summarize, deaf children in Nicaragua have pretty much created their [...]
Wed, Feb 07 2007

convert sound alerts on mac to visual alerts

What's that you said? I always keep an eye out for tips like this: I don't use mac perhaps some of you do and would find this a pretty neat (and quick) tip for getting ALL alerts to flash instead (as opposed to program by program)... Do More With Alert Sounds
Mon, Feb 05 2007

interesting voice to text service...

What's that you said? I stumbled across Jott today. This looks like a free service (apart from the normal cost to you and your service for receiving text messages making calls, etc, of course) that takes a short voice message and transcribes it to email or text you. I wonder if this might be a very convenient way for hearies to send quick and short notes to their deaf friends? Although [...]
Thu, Feb 01 2007

Deaf Performing Artists Network -- comments

What's that you said? I just checked out their website and it looks to me like they're starting up sort of a "Deaf MTV" site where songs are reinterpreted with captions, ASL and so forth. If this sticks around and expands, this might be the best place for me to discover new music.I'm definitely keeping an eye on this. It does register members but you can see all the videos whether or not [...]
Mon, Jan 29 2007

language as intelligence

What's that you said? Definite food for thought here. What struck me about this video was yet another way in which people equate spoken language with intelligence. Just note: the first three minutes of this video has only background sounds: I believe it's the water running, some humming, that sort of thing. After that, she uses a synthesized voice (judging from the comments) as well as [...]
Mon, Jan 22 2007

What's that you said? Nothing new, of course -- many people have pointed out similar things. But I keep coming back to the whole question of deaf education and how it's gotten so screwed over by the ADA.I mean, when the ADA came out I thought it was great. Not perfect, nothing ever is. But in the years since, I've seen a lot of stuff -- first from the disabled community who pointed out [...]
Sun, Jan 21 2007

update re: daphne wright trial

What's that you said? Being that I'm a paralegal, though I don't work as one, I went looking for the court filings so that I could see them myself. They don't appear to be stored online, unfortunately. I emailed the public defender's office with a query about the filings. Here's what she said:Thank you for your email. I agree with you that equating deafness with incompetence is [...]
Fri, Jan 19 2007

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