DeafDigest Blue – November 15, 2020
Blue Edition
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Last week’s ASL Videos in youtube:
http://deafdigest.com/videos/long-line-of-deaf-fans/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/pound-not-piece/
This week’s ASL videos in youtube:
http://deafdigest.com/videos/note-for-illiterate-person/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/newspapers/
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Top stories about the deaf:
Halloween has come and gone. Next year
there will be another Halloween. Terry Cullen,
who is deaf, was praised in a newspaper
story for creating the creepiest house
in the neighborhood. They have said he
is the best with these creepy houses!
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A deaf mother of a murder victim filed a
lawsuit accusing the police department and
the state attorney (Florida) of not providing
her with an interpreter during proceedings.
The federal court dismissed part of her
lawsuit.
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California’s Kern County will pay a deaf woman
$150,000 as a result of her lawsuit against
the sheriffs that arrested her but refused
to provide her with an interpreter.
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Two hearing women, riding a bus, taunted
a deaf passenger because of her deafness.
They were arrested and accused of hate
crime, based on disability.
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A question was thrown in for discussion at the
virtual Beer Culture Summit, hosted by The Chicago
Brewseum center. The question is – how could
small businesses be deaf-accessible?
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This week’s ASL video in youtube
HOW MANY TIMES IT HAS HAPPENED
How many times it has happened that you write
a note for a hearing person to read – and the
hearing person acts strange.
You then realize the hearing person is
illiterate!
This week’s ASL video in youtube:
http://deafdigest.com/videos/note-for-illiterate-person/
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Lip reading tale
A deaf man and a hearing man were talking
about politics.
The deaf man thought the hearing man said:
There is a cap between income and expenses
The hearing man actually said:
There is a gap between income and expenses
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This week’s ASL video in youtube
AMERICAN AND BRITISH NEWSPAPERS
DeafDigest editor looks for deaf news in newspapers
every day. There have been many, many, many deaf news
in British newspapers, but few deaf news in USA
newspapers.
Why? Is it because British newspapers like to write
about the deaf while American newspapers don’t?
No. More and more American newspapers go out of
business; many American newspaper reporters are
laid off. As a result, fewer and fewer American deaf
stories.
British newspapers are different.
This week’s ASL video in youtube:
http://deafdigest.com/videos/newspapers/
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COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR – continuing series
In reading through captioning errors, it might help to look at long and
short vowels. The only vowel keys on the steno keyboard are A, O, E, and
U. The E and U are depressed together to get the letter I. These are
generally thought to be the short vowels.
In order to get a long vowel sound, there are a couple of different
methods that captioners use. The most common way to get long vowels is by
adding other vowels to go with those vowels.
For example, the short A sound would just be written with the letter A.
However, the long A sound may be written with the letters AEU. If the
captioner makes a mistake in writing a long or a short vowel, it can
change the word.
Some examples of this would be:
He used many colors of pants on the project.
She backed the pies.
They ate stacks and baked potatoes.
These should be:
He used many colors of paints on the project.
She baked the pies.
They ate steaks and baked potatoes.
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News of the Week – Looking Back 10 Years Ago:
Last week’s DeafDigest mentioned Diego Lombana
Franceschi, a deaf man, being elected to a
legislative body in Panama but that information
on him was insufficient.
It surfaced this week that he took part in a
TV program in Panama – Face to Face, explaining
his role as substitute deputy legislator. He
is 24 years old and has claimed to have introduced
eight bills, one of these which became law.
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News of the Week – Looking Back 5 Years Ago:
Captain Susan Culin, not deaf, is the Commander of the Fairfax
County Police Department’s Traffic Division in Virginia.
She implied that driving while signing is distracted driving.
She made the implication at a recent Q and A online session.
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