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izhilzha

Seven Interests Meme

Oct 04, 2007 13:56

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

Seven of my Interests hand-picked by ladybrick:

American Sign LanguageExactly what it sounds like: a language of hand signs (and ( Read more... )

lj, diane duane, star wars, licc, interests, i-man, stephen king, meme, asl

Comments 18

astrogirl2 October 5 2007, 00:36:43 UTC

I was taught finger spelling in -- I think -- the fifth grade, as part of a lesson about Hellen Keller. I still remember at least some of the letters, too. It was possibly one of the coolest lessons I ever had... Why don't they teach more nifty stuff like that in schools?

feliciakw October 5 2007, 16:08:00 UTC

I totally think sign language should be a second language option in schools. It's just as useful as Spanish, German, French, Russian, Latin, etc.

lizamanynames October 7 2007, 22:14:54 UTC

IAWTC

dunv_i October 5 2007, 02:49:03 UTC

(loves Diane Duane's stuff)

wneleh October 5 2007, 03:38:31 UTC

RE: ASL - my grade school housed the county program for hearing-impaired students, so everyone was taught some basic ASL including letters, numbers, and signs/grammer. The signs didn't really sink in for me - I have a lousy memory for vocabulary of any sort - but ever since I've done ASL letters whenever I've spoken them. I didn't realize how much I did this until I had kids, and saw them doing the letter signs. So, at six they have trouble remembering the sound 'b' makes, but at three they would make a 'b' in ASL unprompted. The difference between visual and auditory learners!

Though I know it's not *real* SL, finger spelling has come in handy quite a bit, actually.

- Helen

izhilzha October 8 2007, 17:32:52 UTC

The signs didn't really sink in for me - I have a lousy memory for vocabulary of any sort - but ever since I've done ASL letters whenever I've spoken them. I didn't realize how much I did this until I had kids, and saw them doing the letter signs.

Hee! That's great. I'm sure that's what'll happen when I have kids, because I didn't realize how much I fingerspelled and used some of the basic signs until I moved in with new roomies and they were like, "what are doing with your hands?"

kalquessa October 5 2007, 05:20:50 UTC

I'll probably never read all his work (I tried Carrie and couldn't get more than a chapter or two into it), but I respect and admire him a great deal.

Yoooou muuuuust tryyyy the Daaaaark Tooooower seriiiiies! *usues mind powers*

Oh, and meme me!

izhilzha October 5 2007, 16:31:27 UTC

Please to explain: colin firth's sideburns, conlang, fencing, pre-raphelites, narcissism, penguins, and urban exploration.

dodger_winslow October 5 2007, 07:59:14 UTC

I'll play. :D

I have a cousin who is one of the country's leading experts on ASL. When their kids were young and they wanted to chew them out in a public place without an audience, they used to do it in sign language. They also used to give their dog orders in it. My dog understands sign language, too; but it isn't ASL ... ;)

I, too, love Diane's SF work. And bought my neices and nephews her Young Wizard series to counterprogram against that fella with the lighning bolt on his noggin.

I love the way Stephen King writes ... the way he uses the language, the characters he creates, the scenarios he sets up. But he drives me nuts (in a bad way) with the way he takes a chainsaw to his characters in the back forty of most of his novels. Best book he ever wrote, IMO: On Writing. That was an awesome read, and an excellent resource full of kickass advice. I recommend it often and fervently.

izhilzha October 5 2007, 18:04:58 UTC

For the meme: american gothic, bobby goren, driving fast, eternal truths, parapsychology, ravens, westerns.

I have a cousin who is one of the country's leading experts on ASL. When their kids were young and they wanted to chew them out in a public place without an audience, they used to do it in sign language.

Ooo, another good reason for me to become fluent. :-)

I, too, love Diane's SF work. And bought my neices and nephews her Young Wizard series to counterprogram against that fella with the lighning bolt on his noggin.

Heh. I love Harry Potter for different reasons than I love Kit and Nina and Ed and the rest, but I see myself reading both series to my own children (or my nieces/nephews, whichever comes first).

I love the way Stephen King writes ... the way he uses the language, the characters he creates, the scenarios he sets up.

Exactly. :-) (Johnny Smith is still one of my favorite fictional characters ever; and there are multiple people from The Stand who are branded into my brain.)

Best book he ever wrote, IMO: On ( ... )

dodger_winslow October 5 2007, 18:18:03 UTC

Heh! I love the interests you chose. I'm going to give them some good thought and I'll post soon.

On HP ... he bores me.

On On Writing ... the autobiographical stuff is interesting, but distractive to the real value of the book, IMO. The advice on writing, especially in the context of theoretics and some brass tacks foundational stuff like quote attribution? Those are the kind of things the writing teachers never tell you because they aren't writers, they're teachers. That King put this stuff to words and slapped them in a book? He rocks beyond all measure for that. Seriously. Needs to be canonized or something. ;)