Somewhat Silent

Well its been a while since I updated this but college has been damn busy!! Its going well, the words are getting a little tougher, and Im finding it a little difficult not to pull a Homer Simpson, and not lose an old thing when I learn a new one!! Having fun though and practicing almost every day talking with Adrian, so maybe ill get there eventually!! Im gonna miss the class next week tho as Im off to Barcelona! Susan (my lecturer) said she would take notes though so thats great, and as Adrian is going on the art trip too ill get plenty of practice, either that now or my handrighting may actually get legible from writing notes to him!!!
Please tell me if these notes are bothering anyone, they really are only understood by those of us doing the ISL class, Just tell me and ill stop posting them here, because you can also see them on my blog. I just think its handy fro anyone who may want to attempt the Irish version

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Irish Sign Lingo Week 5

Near: letter ‘N’ pushed down by hip

Car: Make driving gesture!

Drive: 2 fists jump out

Hate: Make to rip your heart out!!!

Walk: Hold upper arm

Train: With right hand move letter ‘L’ back and forth on LHPU

Flat: Letter ‘F’ to ‘L’ on cheek

Hotel: Letter ‘H’ to ‘L’ on cheek

Bed & Breakfast: Letters ‘B’ to ‘B’ moving away from body

Saint: Bless yourself with open hand

Mary: 2 Letter ‘M’ rubbing from knuckles to tip of fingers

Joseph: make letter ‘J’ on upper arm, ( This is the same sign for ‘Joking)

Old: Pinch up on back of LHPD

Young: Rub up side of hand

Home: Interlock 2 letter ‘G’

College: Tap letter ‘C’ twice in LHPU

Learn: LHPU letter ‘L’ up to forehead

University: LHPU letter ‘U’ up to forehead

Boarding: Tap back of neck

Go: Circle 2 letter ‘G’ forward (old sign) Or LHPD and slap forward with right hand, (new sign!)

Bus: Spell it (although there is an old sign for it which is) Rub sides of hands together with palms up

By: 2 letter ‘B’ go by eachother

Like: tap chest

Love: cross your chest

New: 2 letter ‘N’ going up and down

Small/Big: these are visiual signs so just gesture for whats big and small!

Irish Sign Language week 4

Wall: Letter ‘w’ up the left hand

Fax: (thru the letterbox) right hadn out under LHPD

Door: LHP towards you and hinge close

Floor: 2 letter ‘F’ down together and out

Ground: 2 letter ‘G’ down together and out

Yard: 2 letter ‘Y’ down together and out

Minicom: Make Phone sign with left hand and type under with right

Computer: Pinchdown with 2 hands (use only thumb and index finger)

Under: LHPD circle letter ‘U’ under

Over: LHPD circle letter ‘V’ over

Listen: letter ‘L’ to ear

Sound: Letter ‘S’ to ear

Noise: letter ‘N’ to ear

Radio: letter ‘R’ to ear

Phone: letter ‘Y’ to ear

Sit: 2 American ‘L’ back to letter ‘T’

Chair: Letter ‘C’ back to ‘H’

Table: Palms up, 2 Letter ‘T’ out to ‘B’

Desk: Palms down, 2 letter ‘B’ going away from eachother

Out: 2 letter ‘N’ crossed and jump out

“Just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t talking about you inaudibly”

Discuss.

Note: Due to a recent deluge of blogspam (1,000 and counting for this week. Lovely, eh?) I’ve enabled Spam Karma 2 on the blog. Hopefully all will go well and none of your comments will be eaten, and no spam will get through. If, however, something goes haywire, please contact me at sara-at-somewhat silent-dot-com (with the appropriate person@domain.com formatting, no spaces.)

Sometime last year, I posted an investigative rant about deaf creatives and their place in the creative industry and some of you raised some points and issues about it. I know, in my former town of Cleveland, there is a branch of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Artists) and while here in Burlington, Vermont there are none.
I managed to speak with someone from AIGA headquarters about organizing a chapter up here and was referred to someone to talk about it.
Even though I’m working on ways to get some more research out of it, I thought some of you creative professionals and/or students might get a kick out of it. The woman, Maria from NYC’s AIGA had this to say to me:

==Adam:

Thank you for your letter. You raise an extremely important issue and we
wholly agree that in order to be successful, design professions must give
opportunity to purposeful creativity from all sources of our society,
culture and population. Clearly, this is also critical if the profession is
to achieve its challenge of communicating to all elements of our society and
clients’ customers or audiences.

In the coming weeks, I will discuss this issue with my colleagues internally
to strategize a way of addressing it–I welcome any thoughts you may have in
this area. Perhaps we could establish an online community for deaf creative
professionals through which to communicate and share experiences and ideas.
Our diversity task force is dormant at the moment as its leadership
transitions, but I will bring this up as a vital aspect of diversity, once
we begin connecting again.

In regards to starting a chapter, Bridget informed me that she forwarded you
the link to that portion of our website. It would be excellent to see
something started in Vermont!

Please feel free to contact me if you have any further thoughts or concerns.

Kind regards,

Maria (edited)

And so…I’m hoping to get something initiated to stir interest, at least, probably at a slow pace but perhaps it will expand later on.