Plain old facts about the origins of ASL and My Opinions

[JTASLCHAFFEY]

where you at the Bernard Braggs show at RCC?

[hilarious1372]

Anybody can simply grab this mp3 file at bulkmp3nab..com

[kalalau52]

Deaf and Death. Both /f/ and/th/ are fricative, which is the reason why hearing people often misunderstand my school for the Maryland School for the Death.

[coined1st]

Great information! Very informative.

[drooooopy]

I wish it had been possible to add captions for the hearing.

I sign a hybrid mess of PSL/ESS/ASL (the result of years of living in and being taught in various places over the years by hearing persons aimed at teaching a person with autism).

I'm even worse at reading the signing of others than I am at signing.

I'm going to have to watch this a bunch of times to try to understand what is being said.

(I found this video while looking for videos referencing the English Signed System).

[DarkaneFiend]

I thought this would be about age/sex/location.

[DiegoDLT]

No Audio.... I should atleast be able to hear her hand movements...

[SloterMFmeyer]

The sound doesn't work.

[lykeomgz1987]

LOL...she's doing sign lanuage, you dork.

[SloterMFmeyer]

No shit?

[lykeomgz1987]

Then next time don't make a retarded comment. "The sound doesn't work".

[SloterMFmeyer]

I'm sorry you had to read my retarded comment. It's just that I was trying to get the drool out of my keyboard with my spastic hands, and all of a sudden the reply was there. And now nobody understands it, not even brilliant people like yourself.

[Marshmallowmann]

But the sound really doesn't work

[avbria]

That is because there are no sounds but the "sounds of signs" that have been spoken.

[Marshmallowmann]

damn and i thought i was captn obvious^^

[rockotto727]

Yes, I like her too. She's very cute. =)

[silentredwolf]

You are right, why native american use sign language among different tribes to keep from enemies and friend. Sample, when cheyenne hunt for food and kill deer (without bow and arrow at that time) and cheyenne try to cut meat and fur, other tribe like lakota approach cheyenne and they both speak different language but sign language same so they want to make sure they are friend or foe.

[avbria]

Also from what I understood was that Indian Sign Language existed before white men since all had different tongues and it was used to communicate with each other (indian tribes). Not that Indian Sign Language was created to communicate with white men if that was what you are implying?

[silentredwolf]

For your information, Indian sign language belong to hearing native american (from midwest to west. By 1830's white man use indian sign language to communicate between native people and government because more than 100 spoken native american language and indian sign language have one language, easier for government to commuicate.

[avbria]

Of course I am very much aware of that. I teach American History and Deaf History. What I am asking is that if there were some similar signs between Indian Sign Language and American Sign Language. Thanks to PureDeaf, he verified that there were some similar signs. Now my next question is how were these signs were introduced to the deaf?

[Davidstealey]

I make my mistake into Davidstealey about Indian sign language and Italian gestures. Sorry! It was mine. I will type in post comment. It will be Junebug.

[Davidstealey]

Hmmm, it's really about Indian sign language. Yeah! ASL is the part of IndianSL and Italy gestures. I had talked with old Indian man, not far from my home. Sometime I went to Little Italy town cuz of my friend who live there. I met and chat with old men who immgrated from Italy. They know Roman fingerspelling and gestures too before I learned America's alphabet fingerspelling so I know Indian SL, Roman fgsg and Italy gestures. I believe some of France SL, Indian SL and Italy gestures.

[Irish1856]

I have seen students memorizing those words without comprehensive. I agreed with you that using their own language to explain what the words/sentences mean is best.

Yeah, I have seen hearing teachers misspelled! I had to correct them. Even closed captions misspelled! They used the sounds to make words, no matter what it means. For example: Cannon Falls. It spelled "Cannon False" on TV news.

Really about the Indian sign language. HMMM that's interesting.

[stevethevlogger]

(he had college-educated parents and home full of books...so it wasn't the environment) It is just that all hearing kids (adults still make these mistakes too...loose vs lose, their vs there, etc...deaf persons never make such sound-based spelling errors! Aren't we lucky?! :) ) learn to write by hearing then learning how to spell properly in text. You are a teacher so you know more about this process how hearing persons learn to write. Tell us?

[stevethevlogger]

======I want to add that when my hearing nephew was young, I noticed his many misspellings...he was writing words as they sounded.

[stevethevlogger]

You might want to check with Dr. Jeffrey Davis of Univ of TN. He does

research on indian signs and ASL. He has found Lib of Congress

films of Indians signing. I think some of them are viewable online.

He was featured briefly on page 10 of the Fall 2006 issue of Gallaudet

Today The Magazine. (Northern American Indian Sign Language was a term

used)

I know nothing so don't ask me. :) Just passing along what I read to

you. Thanks very much for your vlogs.

[darkchess]

"Fruit that you eat, you unwell, you eat no." that is really a funny sentence.

i enjoyed to listen your video. it taught me about the histroy of ASL. great job and thank for posting it