Comments on: Highlights from AAAS: The sign language of science http://boingboing.net/2011/02/23/highlights-from-aaas.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 26 May 2013 06:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/02/23/highlights-from-aaas.html#comment-1035185 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1035185 If the word isn't spelled out before creating the new sign then a deaf person like me wouldn't know its a sign for epidural electrocorticography and might refer to it as "drilling the head thingy" when writing. I prefer a literal translation of the spoken words, unfortunately an interpreter wouldn't be able to keep up if they do that. If the word isn’t spelled out before creating the new sign then a deaf person like me wouldn’t know its a sign for epidural electrocorticography and might refer to it as “drilling the head thingy” when writing.

I prefer a literal translation of the spoken words, unfortunately an interpreter wouldn’t be able to keep up if they do that.

]]> By: AnthonyC http://boingboing.net/2011/02/23/highlights-from-aaas.html#comment-1034495 AnthonyC Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1034495 When I was a freshman there was a nearly-deaf guy in my bio class. He had a translator with him (sometimes just someone typing up what the professor said, sometimes actually signing). I always wondered whether there really were words for some of those terms. When I was a freshman there was a nearly-deaf guy in my bio class. He had a translator with him (sometimes just someone typing up what the professor said, sometimes actually signing). I always wondered whether there really were words for some of those terms.

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