Ironically, it’s only the hearing impaired people who probably still think he’s coherent. Because I just assume there is no sign for “blank stare“ or drool, incoherent babble, or a classic “screaming tacnabakkeoforiam”
I assume the sign language guy has an advance copy of the speech, especially with Joe not being able to go off-teleprompter at the point. The dead are probably getting the speech as written
Probably just bs'es some of it. Sign language between two people is reliant on facial expressions, so if the person is just looking at another guy signing whom is translating, a bit of granularity gets lost. Also there are some things about ASL that doesn't translate into spoken English like bridge words such as 'is' or 'and'.
I only have a very basic understanding of signing, like first grade level if you want to think about it like that, but it is much harder to become fluent in signing than a spoken language because if you have hearing, you always have a backup.... also it has been learned, if someone is deaf or blind, that part of the brain which isn't being used for say audio will become extra processing power and strengthen the other senses.
They should just hire the guy from Mandela's funeral that was just gesticulating the same random, meaningless shit repeatedly. It would probably be a better translation of what Biden says.
He has to be part of some leftist ASL group or something. I had to watch him every day in the Chicagoland area do Lightfoot and Pritzker's daily covid presser for 5 months.
The sign language guy doesn’t get paid enough.
Ironically, it’s only the hearing impaired people who probably still think he’s coherent. Because I just assume there is no sign for “blank stare“ or drool, incoherent babble, or a classic “screaming tacnabakkeoforiam”
I bet the sign guy has the script.
I assume the sign language guy has an advance copy of the speech, especially with Joe not being able to go off-teleprompter at the point. The dead are probably getting the speech as written
No wonder he's winning the deceased vote!
They can still see.
Or a lot of deaf people thinking “Damn, this translator can’t sign for shit. “
Probably just bs'es some of it. Sign language between two people is reliant on facial expressions, so if the person is just looking at another guy signing whom is translating, a bit of granularity gets lost. Also there are some things about ASL that doesn't translate into spoken English like bridge words such as 'is' or 'and'.
I only have a very basic understanding of signing, like first grade level if you want to think about it like that, but it is much harder to become fluent in signing than a spoken language because if you have hearing, you always have a backup.... also it has been learned, if someone is deaf or blind, that part of the brain which isn't being used for say audio will become extra processing power and strengthen the other senses.
There’s a sign in ASL for gibberish so that should suffice for Joe!
Joe Biden's sign language guy got his start in the business translating this song.
It's how Biden's team knew he was the man for the job.
https://www.handspeak.com/word/search/index.php?id=79
I would pay a significant amount of money to watch the ASL interpreter try to sign trunalimunumaprzure
They should just hire the guy from Mandela's funeral that was just gesticulating the same random, meaningless shit repeatedly. It would probably be a better translation of what Biden says.
He has to be part of some leftist ASL group or something. I had to watch him every day in the Chicagoland area do Lightfoot and Pritzker's daily covid presser for 5 months.
and yet.... they get paid too much. With closed captioning, it is so unnecessary.