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Perfect Day
[Audio: music; Captions: none; Lanuage: English, ASL]
Rapper Jim Jones elected to add an ASL translation to this release of his song “Perfect Day” (lyrics below). Interestingly, there are several versions of this on YouTube, one with an MTV branding that utterly obscures the signing, and this one was the best I could find, and it still has the ( Read more... ) -
Her Morning Elegance
[Audio: music; Captions: not needed]
I saw this a few years ago and was blown away; just stumbled across it again and thought of you guys this time
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ASL rendition of “f*ck you”
I’m posting this because it seems to be actually popping up in a number of “non deaf” related places - friends on facebook, even Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish. I’m of two minds about it. Yes, the girl doing it is pretty cute doing so and I like seeing songs translated into ASL by and large. But she just looks like any of hundreds of students ( Read more... ) -
literal videos: love is a battlefield
There’s a series of these old MTV videos redone with subtitles reflecting the literal sequence of what’s being shown. The song here is Pat Benatar’s 1983 “Love Is A Battlefield” which is the audio portion, but the howlers are in the subtitles which have nothing to do with the audio and everything to do with the visuals
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fireflies
This is Fireflies, performed by Stephen Torrence, who is hearing but not CODA, I don’t think. Nevertheless, I like his rendition of the song, and the interesting thing is the captioning on this one - the first line of the caption is the lyric line, the second line is the literal ASL words - if you’re learning ASL, watching this can help pick out ( Read more... ) -
Son of a Preacher Man
[No audio; BSL, no captions, lyrics]
The below version has the audio, but it was taken down for copyright infringement. It is very jerky; I assume that’s an “alteration” that makes it different enough to have it on YouTube without triggering the DCMA. The above version is far smoother and shows BSL off nicely.
[Audio, BSL, no captions, lyrics]
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signmark
Finnish deaf rapper Signmark.
Here he is, teaching the crowd to sign with him:
Here’s the official video:
There’s even a helpful video showing how to sign the chorus
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“I’m Deaf”
[Audio, ASL, subtitled]
Yeah, I got that deaf accent, too. Oddly, most people seem to think I’m from Canada - sorry, canucks, no idea why!
Originally published at What's that you said?. You can comment here or there.
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Waiting On The World To Change
[Audio, ASL, some captions, lyrics]
Originally published at What's that you said?. You can comment here or there.
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