MetaFilter posts tagged with signlanguage

If rhythm be the food of love, play on

iamkimiam — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:12:44 -0800

The ASL Shakespeare Project brings us Twelfth Night, fully translated into American Sign Language (ASL) "American Sign Language (ASL) has often been called "kinetic sculpture," fusing movement and gesture to articulate language in space. With artists and scholars increasingly turning their attention to the representation and translation of gestures, this project joins two distinctly different cultures: the hearing world, with Shakespeare as one of its greatest poets, and the visual/gestural language of the Deaf." Peter Novak, project director for the ASL translation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, has devoted over a decade to this endeavor. Be sure to fully explore the main link to the ASL Shakespeare Project, where you can learn about some of the challenges* involved in an ASL translation, including homonyms, staging, songs and vernacular. Also, the Resources section contains a multitude of links, even lesson plans for students of ASL or Shakespeare, or both! Also, more from the Yale project page: Verse and Classifiers. *Click on Project, then Challenges (on the left sidebar)

Sign language bunny. Pages!

essexjan — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:22:34 -0800

Sign language bunnies. Does exactly what it says. It's bunnies. Teaching you sign language. If that's not enough to both entertain and educate you, it's a geocities-hosted site with the worst case of apostrophe abuse I've seen in ages ("Thing's sign's"), coupled with home-made animated .gifs that are so bad they're brilliant. All it's lacking is an embedded midi file of 'My Heart Will Go On'. There's even a bunny doing gang sign's.

Waffle, meet Splasher. Splasher, this is Waffle.

The corpse in the library — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:17:16 -0800

"My name is a combination of 'take photo' and the letter 'C' for Charlie. How on earth do you pronounce that, you might ask. Well the answer is you don't. You sign it."

ASL Music Videos

five fresh fish — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:03:38 -0800

American Sign Language Music Videos I'm not entirely sure they're ASL. Maybe they're just SL. Any which way you dice it, though, they're great. If you're entertained, do a search: there are lots more of them on YouTube. And just for kicks, Natalie Imbruglia's Torn, signed comedically.

Ventiçello is a miniature ceramic village sculpted by Steven Travis, who also invented a language and script called Tapissary, which appears on the images.

Kattullus — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:38:31 -0800

Ventiçello is a miniature ceramic village sculpted and photographed by Steven Travis, who also invented a language and script called Tapissary, inspired by American Sign Language, which appears on the images.

ASL Videos

alms — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:11:24 -0800

American Sign Language Flash Video Dictionary is a high quality, free dictionary with a huge number of signs. It includes specialized dictionaries of religious signs, conversational phrases, and ASL for babies. Unfortunately it's not possible to link to specific signs, but if you look inside you'll find words from "Abbreviate" to "Zoom" and phrases such as "I cannot fasten my belt," "has he been neutered?" "I already took a bath," "are you married?" and "I need a better firewall."

singing/signing - a different sort of cover song

jessamyn — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:58:14 -0800

Popular: It's Like That, Humble Neighborhood, Son of a Preacher Man, Beautiful, Barbi Girl, Truly Madly Deeply, I'm Alive
Indie: Blister in the Sun, Across the Sea, Tom's Diner, Zombie; Classics: The Rose (more, also without lyrics), Revolution, Hotel California
Rap/Hip Hop (some comedic): Baby Got Back, Ice Ice Baby, Music (more), Paul Revere, Grillz, White and Nerdy, Where'd You Go
Non-English songs: Film Dust, Comme Elle Vient; Pseudosign: Torn (again), Sweet Home Alabama
Instructions: general tips, religious songs, and how to sign "rock & roll"

You damned dirty ape!

miss lynnster — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:15:28 -0800

If you're going to work with Koko the Gorilla, the famous talking ape, you've got to know more than sign language. Allegedly, Dr. Penny Patterson insists you've also gotta show your boobs... who knew?

The birth of a [sign] language

y2karl — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:02:44 -0800

Experts Study New Sign Language System A new system of sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua may hold clues about the evolution of languages. When the country's first school for the deaf was established in 1977, children were not taught sign language but developed a system of signs to communicate. Childhood learning may determine linguistic rules ...They found that older students used hand signals resembling the gestures employed by hearing people, mimicking the entire event physically. But younger pupils - who had interacted with other deaf children from an early age - used a more complex series of signs. They split the scene into component parts and arranged these sequentially to convey the incident. The constructions resemble the way words and sentences are built in verbal languages, using segments structured in a linear fashion. This indicates that way the younger children learnt the sign language helped reshape it according to these linguistic rules.
............... Fascinating... /Mr. Spock

It's a sign!

Karmakaze — Tue, 04 May 2004 08:48:49 -0800

Baby Sign Language. Hearing children can learn to sign before they can talk. Parents can use A S L, or make up their own language.

Modern Drunkard's Bar Signs

jonson — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:18:12 -0800

Bar Signs. Modern Drunkard has posted a handy guide for the alcoholic in us all, a set of gestures to communicate your needs when it's too loud to hear, or just because, as the site says, "when words come out, whiskey can't get in."

geronimo_rex — Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:47:50 -0800

Learn sign language. Or, knowing you - just pretend it's porn.

milnak — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:47:33 -0800

School Girl banned from using sign language. Why do I feel theres more to this story than the article is providing?