mega update

( I have a new inhaler which controls my asthma. )

I was going through my archives the other day and I noticed there've been a number of things I meant to post about and didn't get around to. Maybe sometime I tally up some of those and try to get through them. In the meantime, I keep the list from my last post running ( Read more... )

I watch "Through Deaf Eyes". I'll be tired by 11 when it's over. Tomorrow I write demo, cause I just got an idea ( Read more... )

oh, tomorrow (3/21, Wed) on pbs (kqed here) there's a 2 hour special "Through Deaf Eyes" on American Deaf culture, 9pm-11pm. No idea what the quality will be like. I plan on watching it. If anyone wants to come over and watch it with me that would be cool. Alternatively, if anyone else wants to host a watching party instead, that works too.

"Today, linguists estimate that there may be as much as 58 percent cognates for a sample of 872 modern ASL and FSL words (Lane, 1987:55). Modern British Sign Language and ASL, on the other hand, are almost mutually incomprehensible ( Read more... )

Nancy and I finally got around to lending each other the books we've been meaning to. I lent her The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain, and she lent me Oliver Sacks' Seeing Voices. Yay! A passing remark of Sacks', I forget where anymore, was the first thing that really excited me about Sign, many years ago, and now I' ( Read more... )

I saw a Linguistics Colloquium on "Situation Types and Viewpoint Aspects in American Sign Language" on Friday afternoon. Given in ASL. It was very cool. After nerving myself up for a while, I went up and signed to the presenter afterwards: "I Happy See You Explain. I Beginning L-I-N-G-U-I-S-T-I-C-S Student And Beginning Sign Student." I didn't ( Read more... )

Having heard a rumor, many moons ago, from coolstring that there was might be a 2 unit American Sign Langauge class in the Spring, I scoured the catalogs when they came out, and the Schedule of Classes website. Alas, to no avail ( Read more... )