A Few Minutes In The Life Of A Sign Language Interpreter, The Job Interview

A sign language interpreter wishes he could escape pre interview questions

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[randommosinosity]

so I have to ask, are you an interpreter or do you just make these up? To be honest I want to know because I am learning ASL and I have had these exact worries and have heard some people ask these questions as well.

[lynnekelly2000]

@randommosinosity Yes, I'm an interpreter. I couldn't have made all this up.

[SuperLonelygirl1990]

i think deaf people in all over the world should learn one sign language to make it easy for others to communicate with them i was learning the american sign language but then i found out that the arabian sign language is different and the ethiopian is different and in every country has a different sign language and i should learn all the three languages(american,arabian and ethiopian ) :O but then i stopped learning because it's so difficult to learn 3 different sign languages

[lynnekelly2000]

@SuperLonelygirl1990 That's like asking hearing people all over the world to all start speaking one language to make it easier for everyone. That would be nice, wouldn't it, but how is that possible? Everyone's going to give up the language they've always been using and just learn a new one?

[SuperLonelygirl1990]

@lynnekelly2000 no they don't have to give up the language that they'v learned!!!! i thought it would be better if learn another language....... it would be easier if they learn the american sign language because it's an international language and almost everyone can speak english so it would be better if everyone can sign in english don't you think

[lynnekelly2000]

@SuperLonelygirl1990 Still, it's like asking everyone in the world to speak English too. A whole lot of countries don't. And I can't imagine how people all over the world who have no contact with one another would learn a common language.

[signingsis]

Are you referring to the language of love or Klingon? LOL

[Jessin8r]

Hahaha. I LOVE this. I had someone ask me, while I was working at a hospital, if I was interpreting to put myself through school.  Do people usually interpret to put themselves through school for something more lucrative? Stripping, perhaps?

[LenAndRen9898]

I need the alarm clock that cataputs me out of bed, and the one with screaching monkeys....

[JeffSpingeld]

@SuperLonelygirl1990 What the uploader said, and furthermore, ASL is not 'signing in English.' English has influenced ASL to a degree, the same way all languages in contact infuence each other, but they are completely different languages, just like English and, say, Japanese (which English has also influenced). Actually, Japanese grammar is more similar to ASL than English grammar is.

[NopeIzNotHawaiian]

haha this is spot on what people do!!! drives me crazy

[lookingup82]

@SuperLonelygirl1990 Different gestures have different cultures.

[lookingup82]

@lynnekelly2000 You have me on the floor cracking up? These are great!