Oppressed by English

Toby explains about how Deaf people expressed in ASL from any story but we felt we had to follow English's rule. However, he explains that with ASL we are free to do anything and don't have to follow English!

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[cdbicdb]

ASL, SEE, PSE, English...it is all a form of communication. I have deaf friends that sign more English even among themselves. I have seen ASL and English forms mixed. I agree with ASL Precious, to better yourself you do need to understand the written English then comprehend it into your understood language. I enjoy signing and communicating, I seem to fit in, I sign more English than ASL yes, but I tend to flip ASL Englihs same with my friends too.

[deafpcatoby]

Yeah, most of Deaf people used ASL and English mixed. There is none pure or 100% ASL signers, maybe there is a very few. However, they do used ASL most of 90% times. When I talked with hearing people, I naturally switched to English, not in signing but English order.

[kalijasin]

@deafpcatoby I know many asl signers, pure asl.

[DaveASL]

@deafpcatoby This is true, also though I'd like to point out, in some cases, signing with ASL word order can sometimes be easier to understand for an ASL student than English can. It probably depends on how much experience they've had with sign, but for example, I've recently become Hard of Hearing, been learning ASL for 2 years, going to college to learn to interpret unless my hearing becomes worse, if that happens maybe I'll try deaf Ed. But the ASL story was easier to understand than Eng.

[236690]

Yes, i agree with you.. thanks for share me... so nice

[deafboy5215]

yeah i thunk that was better story with asl than the English because it's easy to understand talk about that book. but i alway read then change to asl because i teach the childen but i not teacher no still am i in the stundent but i have to help to childen whatever, i alway to do change to asl from English because i want to childen to understand what about this book that why.

[dangerics]

2 thing frustrate me, one the oppression of asl among Deaf babies while it is support with hearing babies. Denying someone's natural language is tyranny. To then turn around and use asl with hearing kids is hypocrisy.

The other thing is that your written English (in your vlog descriptions) is better than many of the papers my students turn in and I teach college! Maybe my students need asl classes to help them with their English!

[schultzam]

Wow! I can totally relate to that concept! I grew up in a hearing world and I have always found myself frustrated in college because right now I am attempting at immersing myself in the Deaf world much more. I found myself struggling and criticizing my ASL due to the fact that I found myself signing in english order quite frequently. I think it takes ALOT of practice to be able to translate the word script into ASL. Thanks for this post. :)

[sailboatfreak65]

Excatly, I had been frustrated understanding the english issues because I grew up with deaf parent, I feel that my situation at school are sort of waste, if they are using my first language, the only and also my movation will increased dramaically, and will do better in english from ASL than from English to English

[SMMauhl]

I agree 100 percent !!!

[deafboy90]

I understand what you mean, i am Hard of hearing. I used to do English until i join Sign Language class and learn ASL. I got to tell you ASL is the easy to learn. I use both ASL and English, most of the time ASL.