Stupid Guest Tricks

DragonFox98 wrote:Laso, there are actually some really great Internet sites that show you the movements....just Google "ASL" and learn one or two a day. :)

I say it would be helpful because a couple of my coworkers are deaf and I think it would probably be good to be able to communicate with them.

Also, there is a good chance you have heard of the company I work for as we are the leading provider of VRS in the US.

Lasolimu wrote:I say it would be helpful because a couple of my coworkers are deaf and I think it would probably be good to be able to communicate with them.

Also, there is a good chance you have heard of the company I work for as we are the leading provider of VRS in the US.

ASL is always helpful! :) and, yes, VRS is definitely noted by people like me!

I love ASL. It is such a beautiful language. I have a lot of book knowledge of ASL, but very little actual conversational experience, though what I know has helped me once or twice in court when we had a deaf defendant and no interpreter handy.

Has the VM ever had a performance interpreted by a rythmic signer? When there are no actual word phrases to translate, the signer interprets the musical passages. It makes it fun to watch when the show includes scatting or nonsense phrases, as the signer gets to try and convey the feel of the music. Even during instrumental passages, some of the signers will indicate tempo and solos.
When I was a roadie about ten years ago, we played some cities for more than a week, and in those cities there would be an interpreted performance. I loved seeing how diffeent interpreters would translate our show. Some did it litteraly, and ignored the musical breaks and nonsense. Others did the rythmic interpretation. We had a pair of interpreters in St Louis who were amazing. One did the lyrics, the other the music. For duets they each took a part. Our non hearing audience probably got a better show than those who could hear.

My ASL has so slipped away. Use it only for the dogs & horse mostly. Mon. I had two wonderful guests, one signed & was verbal, the other only signed. We didn't have the items they wanted & I really needed expert help. Used my ASL & had another CM keep them east as I went to Emporium & asked for the finest ASL CM Main Street has. He was with a manager. I asked he be pulled asap because _______ needs him NOW! Most CMs know when I say NOW this means special needs guest. I was so grateful when this CM came over & signed "What's up? You need me?" I signed my wants, gave him a huge hug then went back to find my guests & inform them they wouldn't need to suffer my poor ASL. They laughed :) The verbal gal was so cool. She hugged me & wanted me to stay with them & shop, so I did. The next day I began to re learn my forgotten ASL skills. I'm going to take a mid level ASL class this summer. ASL is so easy & very needed when working with thousands of guests. How selfish of me not to keep my ASL skills polished. This thread has also been an incentive. Thanks all.

No...thank you!!! I wish I could meet you, but if I go to Cali, it will break off and fall into the ocean (yes....I am THAT afraid of earthquakes). Maybe one day I'll get lucky. You're coming to the East Coast this August, right? Again...wish I could be there, but our trip will be at the end of next March (yes....I'm already planning it). It's so great of you to even learn ASL in the first place! Like I said, we're much more verbal and lip-reading than ASL-using; we loose our hearing gradually over a number of years so we learn to speak and such. Most people who met my grandfather thought he just had a "funny accent". :)

Have a wonderful day! (you've just made mine brighter)

I only know how to say one thing using sign language, I've noticed that quite a few of those around me on the roads know it as well...

DragonFox98 wrote:... if I go to Cali, it will break off and fall into the ocean (yes....I am THAT afraid of earthquakes).

Your fears are misplaced. True Californians know that when the big one hits the first thing east of California will be Europe.

delsdad wrote:... Has the VM ever had a performance interpreted by a rythmic signer? When there are no actual word phrases to translate, the signer interprets the musical passages. It makes it fun to watch when the show includes scatting or nonsense phrases, as the signer gets to try and convey the feel of the music. Even during instrumental passages, some of the signers will indicate tempo and solos.
When I was a roadie about ten years ago, we played some cities for more than a week, and in those cities there would be an interpreted performance. I loved seeing how diffeent interpreters would translate our show. Some did it litteraly, and ignored the musical breaks and nonsense. Others did the rythmic interpretation. We had a pair of interpreters in St Louis who were amazing. One did the lyrics, the other the music. For duets they each took a part. Our non hearing audience probably got a better show than those who could hear. ...

Not since I've been in VM. But signs set to music is one of my all-time favorite things. I've performed songs in sign language, and have seen all-deaf choirs sign to recorded tracks -- it's beautiful thing, I tell you.

Your post reminded me of the Candlelight Processional from a couple of years ago. My family and I had the treat to see it with Marlee Matlin narrating. She can speak, but she chose to sign the entire narration, with an interpreter voicing for us hearing folk. Talk about an expressive signer -- wow! But as cool as that was, the interpreter standing stage left doing the ASL for the musical numbers was AMAZING. I watched him as much or more than all of the rest of the spectacle together. He was not just interpreting, he was performing, with every inch of his face and body involved in expressing the story and emotion. Best I've ever seen.

ktulu wrote:I only know how to say one thing using sign language, I've noticed that quite a few of those around me on the roads know it as well...

yeah, but with a limited vocabulary!!

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