DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, August 10, 2016
-- Coda using Sign Language on First Dates
A British Coda appeared on "First Dates" which
is a popular British reality TV series. Matched
up with a blind date, he used British Sign
Language to indicate his fondness for his date.
It backfired because the date was turned off
and refused to date the Coda again! See
the picture at:
http://35.182.75.222/using-sign-language-on-tv-reality-show/
-- a surprise at another truck driving school
Yesterday's DeafDigest mentioned that a Texas
truck driving school has had four deaf graduates.
There is a surprise with a truck driving school
in Kansas. A deaf man enrolled at that school;
instead of hiring an interpreter, the school
used the ASL-signing services of a deaf truck
driver! Good or bad? The instructor would
teach proper truck driving techniques. A
truck driver (no matter deaf or hearing)
may accidentally teach bad truck driving habits!
Anyway, this deaf man is now making a living
as a local truck driver.
-- a dying sign language in one state
The Hawaiian Sign Language, thought to be
extinct, was rediscovered in recent years
by Linda Lambrecht, a native-born deaf
Hawaiian. She is fighting two things
to keep the language alive - skeptics
that feel it is not worth the effort,
and time, in a race to record the
language on tape before the last
native user departs us.
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- ASL interpreter for ASL instructor
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
08/07/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
