LA is burning, and the right is furious—about sign language interpreters
www.motherjones.com
Life-saving ASL interpretation is the latest woke scourge.
    • jonne@infosec.pub
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      28 days ago

      Cue some video of Abbott or Desantis next to an ASL interpreter. Hasn’t this stuff been standard for decades?

  • 𝚐𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚎@h4x0r.host
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    28 days ago

    So he postulated why not just have only closed captioning as once before instead of half the screen be ASL.

    I guess I would be curious to know why, actually. Is there a better reason?

    Edit: I read the quote, but curious if by emotional nuance they mean in the interpreter’s facial expressions? Wouldn’t they also gain this from the primary person speaking too?

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      28 days ago

      You can’t read text and view a person’s expression at the same time, but you can watch signing and see the expression (sometimes because it’s part of the sign itself).

      For some Deaf people it’s also an issue that they aren’t as fluent in written English as they are in American Sign Language. Text isn’t going to help them if they can’t figure out what it means, or it’s going by too fast to comprehend.