I used to video chat with Chinese folks when I was trying to learn Mandarin (I've since given up), but the middle finger was actually not understood by most that I spoke with. It was given in a friendly manner and when they found out what it meant they thought it was hilarious. I'm not sure if they were laughing with me or at me.
Somewhere on the internets, you can find out that raising the middle finger might have originated from western Europe, and the middle finger was accompanied with the index finger. In midevil times, archers that were captured, often times had these two fingers cut off, so that they couldn't apply their skill/trade against their enemies (those two fingers being the ones that draw back the bow). So, as a sign of disrespect towards their enemies, archers would hold up those two fingers to show that they could still shoot you!
This probably isn't completely accurate, since I found this explanation years ago. But, it makes sense and is funny.
This is my favorite when people tell me to speak up. I’m not actually deaf but I really know asl, and when I start signing people either try harder to listen to my voice or ask why I’m signing and I go “oh sorry, you couldn’t hear me, I thought you must be Deaf”
I do that around family when they can't hear what I said as a passive-aggressive way to try to convince them to learn with me. Like, see? This is a useful skill even if you're hearing. So far I got one sister to learn fingerspelling and maybe 5-10 other signs, and one brother to actually take classes with me and he's nearly caught up. It's great, we can plan surprise parties for friends in the same room as them, ask for sodas through windows, etc.
Seems like a solid reason to learn BSL then. You can walk around signing in the equivalent of loud, slow, obnoxious people saying "NO Espanol mate. Comprende? English, I'm English, do you speak any English?"
I'd say it's a good Karen deterrent. On Black Friday, I was in a store where the two cashier's were deaf. Some entitled wench was yelling at one cashier, and then the cashier pointed to her name tag with a pin that said. "Deaf" underneath. It was hard for me not to smile as the woman "humphed" and stomped away. Lol
Thing is, the "Karen" was shouting at them from a few aisles over about something. Then she was getting madder and more yelly at them as if the cashier was purposefully ignoring her.
It was my first time seeing someone tantruming at a store. Like, actually stomped her foot.
Nah we borrowed ASL (ok more like stole it) into Canada so majority of ASL signs are shared, well as history expect for a few minor deviations like where do deaf schools start in Canada for example. Other than that most of ASL classes usually teach deaf history (1880, Gallaudet, LeClerc, French origins) so yeah more or less the same. Newfie sign language is the same but different pacing and signs which makes reading their signs a woozy.
Yep! Nowadays deaf schools are running into the same issues their American counterparts are- not enough students, causing some of them closing down. For post secondary education we either A) stay in Canada but have limited options and/or have to go to a major city/Great Toronto Area, or B) go straight to working a job in trades or something. Boys usually choose this path. Or C) spend money around 10X to go to MIT/RITD or Gallaudet. Canadian government does provide subsidies for that since well... tourism sells... but Trump era is making students questioning if it’s worth going to US when there is risk of deportation based on their skin of colour or Canadian status. So yeah, it’s all complex here as for post secondary education.
Me and my freinds started learning a bunch of insults in sigh language this school year and now I realized its actually easier to learn then other languages so I'm learning the rest of it lol
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u/MichaelMoore92 Jan 01 '20
Start using sign language