DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, December 11, 2013
-- the mystery of the fake interpreter at Mandela service
South African deaf leaders were angry about the fake
interpreter during the Mandela memorial services.
So embarrassed the nation was that they are looking
for him. No one knew who he was. He was just moving
his arms around with no meaning to his gestures. How
did this happen? It can happen because no one carefully
looked into his interpreting credentials. It is the
same as in 2009, when Tareq and Michaele Salahi, both
not deaf and without proper credentials, were able to
sneak into the White House to attend a big Obama event!
Anyway, there is a big South African manhunt, trying to
catch this fake interpreter, as he is in hiding.
-- the "crazy" Americans?
Are we, the Americans, all crazy? No, but in Cantonese
Sign Language, the sign for "American" is the same sign
for the word "crazy." China has several spoken languages
and one of them is Cantonese (now known as Guangzhou). And
each language has its own sign language. Why and how would
the Cantonese sign language show "crazy" for us, the
Americans? Good question, something for linguists to find out.
-- the best computer for VP communications?
Which is the best for VP communications - the laptop
or the the Mac? A high tech deaf computer pro said
he uses IPad because it works pretty well. And it
is clean and faster to set it up and simple to use.
Of course, some people are comfortable with the laptop,
others with the Macs - and so, it is a personal choice.
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