Friday, March 03, 2006

Message to the Deaf

Mr. Shineyhead says to get up off your asses and start signing with the ASL students who go to the local Deaf coffee hour. He asks: How the hell are new interpreters supposed to get the diversity of signing experience necessary to understand what the fuck you're saying -- if you won't sign with them?

Or, as we in the Hearing world say: WTF? You trying to *kill* your own language? Isn't it bad enough that Washington's threatening to close your school?

Well, as an ambassador of good will, you all should know that I'm teaching my fellow classmates in graduate school all the good curse words. And if, as a half-fluent signer, I'm totally fucking them up, well ... if you went to coffee more you could fix these things. So Mr. Shineyhead says anyway.

I'm just the messenger.

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