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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Jun 30, 2000 3:23 am Subject: Re: standardized spellings | ||||||||||||||||||||
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>mmm.. this has been my experience also..."shouting" is usually very tense, >quick, and extremely crisp. Often with extended hold at the begining of a >phrase or sign which is then completed at nearly the speed of light....very >clearly SHOUTING. LOL > >Cecelia SignWriting List June 29, 2000 OK guys - thanks so much for your good points. I was not talking about getting angry. Shouting certainly can mean a person is getting angry - you are 100 per cent right that that kind of shouting is different in ASL. I was talking about trying to help a person who does not know a language, understand the language...and sometimes when hearing people are trying to talk to a person from another language, that hearing person raises the sound of his or her voice, without even noticing it...in other words...psychologically they are thinking the person can't hear them, but actually they just don't know the same language and raising the voice is unnecessary. I remember once I was trying to explain to someone in English (who didn't know English), how to find a hotel. And I started to raise my voice "Go down this street" and I pointed and I also raised my voice without knowing it - and someone near me said - Hey. They are not deaf! And I felt embarrassed because I realized what I was doing.... So I was comparing that to little Irina, who is a native signing Deaf child, who changes her language so that she is signing slower and larger, because she knows the other person doesn't know her language...what would you call that? Or what is your theory as to why she changes her language into larger movements? -- Val ;-) ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org To Post A Message To The SW List: SignWriting List Archives: https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l | ||||||||||||||||||||
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