[Magdalen] signing the mass

[Charles Wohlers]

An older friend of ours at church (one Willem Lange) was also the hearing 
child of deaf parents. His father, in fact, was the missioner to the deaf 
for much of upstate New York, based in Syracuse. He can still do ASL.

Also, I was reading an interesting article on the invention of a sign 
language for the deaf in Nicaragua:
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/signs-and-wonders


Chad Wohlers
Right now in
East Bridgewater, MA USA
but only for another week, when the house will be finally sold.
chadwohl at satucket.com

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jay Weigel
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 4:09 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] signing the mass

I'd call it bilingual. Adam's second wife was the hearing child of deaf
parents, and her first language was ASL. Sometimes when she had trouble
figuring out things she would sign to herself.

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I watch the German nightly news show Tagesschau whenever I can, and it's
> possible to watch a signed version in German sign language
> (Gebärdensprache). It's of course different from signed versions of other
> languages, and it's weird-looking (IMO)! Some shades of meaning are
> imparted by facial gestures including wide eyes and puffing up the cheeks.
> The thing is, puffing up the cheeks doesn't have much to do with the
> meaning (it doesn't signify "fat" or "playing a tuba." I think it's like
> facial punctuation. They also do a lot more with
> happy/sad/positive/negative facial expressions, which is pretty standard,
> but the result is that a pretty humdrum news story looks rather
> melodramatic if you're watching the signer.
>
> It also doesn't go literally through a sentence, word for word. Generally
> there are three main signs per sentence, for subject, verb, and object
> (tricky because that's not always the word order in German, and you have 
> to
> wait for the verb at the end of the sentence).
>
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 12:57 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The Florida School for the Deaf is in St. Augustine,
> > and sign language is a second language hereabouts.
> > Yesterday the bagger at Publix was signing with the
> > customer ahead of me in line. But he wasn’t deaf,
> > just bilingual (or however you’d characterize his ability).
> >
> > St. Anastasia’s is offering a class to teach us how to
> > sign the mass. That is, the responses. I am psyched.
> > The nascent choreographer in me is doubly psyched.
> > Will let you know how it goes.
> > -M
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>