Archived The Hang Out Thread

[bebong]

well, I know it's slightly different like awak is saya (if not mistaken)

 

[Gold Knight]

Oh I see. I am wondering myself last time around. What good it is to learn A to Z in sign language.

There are a lot of long, hard words that we don't have a sign for - so that we have to spell these words.

ASL signers do tend to try to avoid using these words as much as possible, because they want their sentences to come out as quickly and as graceful as possible.

That's why I prefer ESL over ASL. I LIKE using long, hard words (well, not that I'm wordy, but I like to have a big vocabulary.)

The sign for "car" in ASL is more general. The sign for "car" in ESL would be used with the alphabet sign for "C" to make it different from "van" ("V"), "truck" ("T"), and jeep ("J") - so the alphabet can be an integral part of signing words, too.

What if we want to mention a sentence? It will be so troublesome to make every sign for each alphabet. But now I know already. Actually, there are signs for words too.

Right ^_^

 

[bebong]

Graceful.......LOL, why do they have to speak *Gracefully*??

 

[Gold Knight]

I think ASL is all about storytelling.  Quick, graceful signs allow you to describe a story more quickly and keep the audience listening for a longer time than ESL. So you can sing more easily in ASL, but in ESL you'd have more trouble.

There are advantages to ASL in that deaf people can get their points across to each other very fast, but I want to go beyond the deaf culture and deal with the hearing world too.  I think all deaf people are going to have to deal with hearing society at some point, so most SHOULD be taught ESL to begin with, so they can learn how to write and read, too.  ASL is just for talking to other deaf people.  It's really unfortunate that most deaf people in America only know ASL.

 

[bebong]

So you entertain more huh??? I don't really know Western culture coz I've only been to America thrice

 

[Gold Knight]

Something like that, yeah. ASL is based on French sentence structure too, so that really screws up deaf people's habits of writing in English.

Where are you from again? Sorry if you already told me and I forgot...

 

[bebong]

Indonesia

 

[Gold Knight]

Okay, cool ^_^

 

[bebong]

Yeah, thx

 

[deerjing]

The raw is slow.

 

[murai]

Yeah, where is it? Usually there are Edited Mangas out by now.

 

[njt]

Ya.... well sometimes it's late~

 

[nah-nah]

^^ hi everyone.

i just got the photobook for *pnish* and now i'm happy because i love tsuchiya yuuichi. <33333

 

[njt]

haha don't have too much fun

 

[Gold Knight]

Yo Nana-chan

 

[bebong]

what is *pnish* nah-nah?? Well, is the RAW late coz Dyro just went home from camping ???

 

[Akasun]

SNOW DAY!!!! YYAAAAAAAAAAAAY! *cough*

 

[Leen]

So nice!!!!!!!!!!! I want snow !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[deerjing]

Does the snow taste good?

 

[nah-nah]

*pnish* is a group of four guys who can sing, dance, act, and do other things. They're really cool and they've been friends for a long time.

I love love love Tsuchiya Yuuchi <33 he's so cool. He's their best dancer~~

njt are they really really popular there, or not very well known? I know they mostly do stage acting, if i'm not correct.