Another brilliant video. Convincing the college professor to make a fool of himself doing a ridiculous dance as he thinks it is sign language for "hello!"... classic!! :)
25% of my courses in uni so far had sign language interpreters. It's so interesting! Also, the deaf guy in my class this semester is really handsome... and I'm too shy to contact to him :( (the interpreter, e-mail, Facebook, there are ways, and I'm too shy).
Thanks for all the comments, everyone! Great to see people are enjoying the videos. I didn't expect it to make the rounds like it has, so that's pretty cool! Hopefully we'll never come across anyone quite this clueless.
The accuracy of this video is hilarious. I've experienced this type of "ignorance" from the deaf side. teachers and people who really have no concept... Brilliant!
This video makes me want to cry and start twitching as I laugh hysterically...because it's ALL TRUE! Who knew college professors could be so incredibly ignorant. It's truly eyelid-twitch-worthy! My personal real-life favorite was the ESL teacher who asked the deaf student which way of saying an English sentence SOUNDED correct. *face-palm!*
Hey Lynne! Hope you are doing well! I wanted to let you know I went to a trilingual conference in Puerto Rico last week and met an interpreter from the Virgin Islands. He started talking about how great your videos...he LOVED them. He said you need to make more, haha, and he said that he forwarded your videos to a bunch of people. Thanks for making these!
For those who don't know ASL, the teacher signs "I Love myself! Wow. Missiles launching. Lifting boxes my left arm went limp, but I still lifted the box." Then when he says that will be distracting, he signs "lesbian."
Okay, so far I don't really know anything about sign language but was lookig it some videos to see what it's like in the deaf community. I allowed the guy like his first two slips thinking maybe he was just ignorant but even as a hearing person (I don't know if that has anything to do with this situation, I just see people making the distinction) I would have punched the guy in the face. I have a short tolerance for the stupidity of the "educated". If this is really what people have to go through (I don't know if this is an exaggeration) but I if people are like this, I would seriously have to restrain myself. Dear gosh, really...
This is incredibly funny--I showed it to an office full of terps today and everyone was in hysterics! The things that are so funny about it are that we have all met this teacher and been asked inane questions and the interpreter's responses which are absolutely priceless! Brava! More, more!:)
I'm a terp, too. It's just amazing what folks with all kinds of degrees will come up with. Terp: "Just look at her and speak in English." Hearie: "But how will she understand what I say?" Aargh!!
This was so funny and sad because so many people feel that way. When I told someone I was learning ASL, they asked me if anyone "still uses that". Ugh!
Yes Lynne, that will be great - a job interview. You must be having so much fun doing these - it is what ALL of us want to say! We also should all start greeting each other with the professor's "sign language" at conferences and such - our secret greeting!!!
Love this video, my wife is hard of hearing and although I haven't encountered all of these questions in one situation, each question is accurate. Consider this the greatest hits of dumb questions regarding sign language interpreters.
Well, there are some gestures that resemble real signs and handshapes--WOW, STAR, the ILY handshape, and something that kind of resembles PLAN--but it's true, it means nothing in ASL.
@signoutloud2 I've uploaded captions from a transcript I typed and saved as a .txt document, but I'll look into using annotations next time; I like the look of that better than the captions I have. And thank you! Glad you've enjoyed the videos and were inspired to do your own!
I saw there was a comment earlier about captioning-- it's deleted now, so maybe that means you did get the captions to work, but for anyone else who's wondering, the videos are captioned so deaf people can view them also. If you click the "CC" below the video, that should bring up the captions.
This is too hilarious, because it's so painfully true! I was mentioning sign language to my hearing students and one asked "so did you have to learn Braille?" ....lolwut? So... yeah. (:
@jaredarchambeau Thanks, glad you're enjoying it! It actually is captioned already, so if you click the "CC" below the video, the captions should come up.
Lynne (from another Lynne) these are great!!! I am not sure which one is my favorite and look forward to seeing more!!! Mental Health is next ;) could be fun!!!
I cannot tell you how much i love this! i look forward to the mental health one! how i wish we could say some of this stuff! ROFL! I have been accused of hand flapping. hysterical!!!
@rickibunnyrabbit Thanks, glad you like the videos! Actually they're already captioned, so when you click the "CC" button below the video, the captions should come up.
@rkpdmbfan Hi, great to hear you've enjoyed the videos! They are all captioned, so if you click on the "CC" below the video, the captions should show up.
"Probably on the back of a centaur, or carried on a couch by a bunch of shirtless men like she's Cleopatra!" hahaha "... What about you? Are you allowed to drive?" This is truly hilarious :D Thank you very much for making these videos! You are addressing the problem with such humour!
I just died! Omg! So hilarious! The first time I saw this at 2:06 I accidentally clicked pause, because I was uncontrollably laughing. And I kept laughing because it went with what was said in the video. I've never laughed so hard.
@brendabrueggemann That's weird-- when I click on the "CC" at the bottom, the captions come up, so they are working. Let me know if you're able to see it if you try on a different computer.
It's like any language--some people will pick it up faster than others, but it takes a lot of time to become fluent. Taking a good course would allow you to have some simple conversations.
lynnekelly2000 - Your videos totally rock! I was randomly checking out UA-cam videos based on a theme then was indirectly led to your videos. I was laughing and laughing! Thank you for sharing your experiences as an interpreter, I can't wait to check out the rest of your videos! :)
I actually had a high level (vp level) boss who told the interpreter not to come to a talk he gave because he thought it would be distracting. If it wasn't his last week on the job, I would have reported him to EEO; as it was, I was just relieved he was leaving.
@luthienthefair21 Eeek, I just made this one two days ago! Oh, the pressure to be funny more than once... Actually I think the next video will be in a job interview setting, but there's plenty of fodder for more classroom videos.
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INCREDIBLE
She was throwing some serious shade 😅
BIG TIME, with a little bit of sarcasm which he didn't have a clue of getting, HILARIOUS!!!!
LOL "Remember that thing I mentioned before, about interpreting? It'll be because of that." haha
"Holy Crap. That's amazing." Cracks me up every time.
Our ASL teacher showed this to my class today, best thing I have ever watched XD
Lynn Marie sammeee
Same
When my blind friend checks out at the supermarket with a credit card, the cashier often says - "Now you have to push the green button."
"That'll be so distracting for the other students"
Give them a few days and they'll get used to it
Another brilliant video. Convincing the college professor to make a fool of himself doing a ridiculous dance as he thinks it is sign language for "hello!"... classic!! :)
the sad part is that these are all real things we go through
I am linking and crediting this as part of my assignment for dignity in the workplace guide for staff!
lol, "on the back of a Santor or carried in on a couch carried by shirtless men like she's Cleopatra"
Audrey Porter none of this is funny
*centaur
25% of my courses in uni so far had sign language interpreters. It's so interesting!
Also, the deaf guy in my class this semester is really handsome... and I'm too shy to contact to him :( (the interpreter, e-mail, Facebook, there are ways, and I'm too shy).
Did you ever contact him???
yes tell us all
what happened?
Wow guys! Sorry to disappoint you, but nothing happened :( I was too shy to talk to him, it's fine though!
Trine Hemmelig well, there's plenty of fish in the sea. Next time!
Thanks for all the comments, everyone! Great to see people are enjoying the videos. I didn't expect it to make the rounds like it has, so that's pretty cool! Hopefully we'll never come across anyone quite this clueless.
"remember the thing I mentioned before ... about me interpreting?"
This is sooooo epic, I am in total awe.
lol, my parents are deaf, i have to interpret for them a lot. this comes close to a lot of hearing people i encounter.
Wow! Amazing depiction of the pov. So many misunderstandings.
I didn't know Siri was a Sign Language interpreter. (:
I'm dying right now. It shows such ignorance you can only laugh
This is what siri does on her half time lol
I love snappy answers to stupid questions. The eye rolling is priceless.
This is almost what we come up against at work, lol funny as fuck..
I thought he was doing the juju on that beat dance
Yes!!!! This is 100% on point!
I laught so much 😂😂 cleophatra lol funny video 👍👏 " I guess by now she can figured how to get to class by herself" "carry like cleophatra"
The accuracy of this video is hilarious. I've experienced this type of "ignorance" from the deaf side. teachers and people who really have no concept... Brilliant!
OMG!!! Too funny! Whoever wrote the script, nailed it!!! I'm sending it to every terp I know... Plus a few professors...
This video makes me want to cry and start twitching as I laugh hysterically...because it's ALL TRUE! Who knew college professors could be so incredibly ignorant. It's truly eyelid-twitch-worthy! My personal real-life favorite was the ESL teacher who asked the deaf student which way of saying an English sentence SOUNDED correct. *face-palm!*
I'm seriously laughing out loud! I can't!!!
Thank you so much for the good laugh! I'll be watching and hoping for more!!
Haha! Very cool! I do need to think of another scenario and make a new video. Thanks for letting me know!
Lol! I love the sarcasm!
It's the sign language equivalent of the spoken-word "blappety blap bla bla yip yip yap".
This is so funny. This is the best thing I've seen you youtube for a while!
"I'll give you a moment to think about that"
ahahhahhaha
Thanks so much! Glad you came across the video and enjoyed some laughs from it.
Hey Lynne! Hope you are doing well! I wanted to let you know I went to a trilingual conference in Puerto Rico last week and met an interpreter from the Virgin Islands. He started talking about how great your videos...he LOVED them. He said you need to make more, haha, and he said that he forwarded your videos to a bunch of people. Thanks for making these!
@SignsOfDevelopment Yes, we HAVE to do that! Can't wait to see interpreters doing the robot.
This is incredible I have shown this to many of my interpreter collegues
I love these videos. If I was an interpreter these are some of the sarcastic responses I would probably give to ignorant people.
AWESOME
this is so funny!! i love how sarcastic this interpreter is, all the ones i had were dull! lol
LOL, love that the interpreter is so sarcastic. XD
For those who don't know ASL, the teacher signs
"I Love myself! Wow. Missiles launching. Lifting boxes my left arm went limp, but I still lifted the box."
Then when he says that will be distracting, he signs "lesbian."
Okay, so far I don't really know anything about sign language but was lookig it some videos to see what it's like in the deaf community. I allowed the guy like his first two slips thinking maybe he was just ignorant but even as a hearing person (I don't know if that has anything to do with this situation, I just see people making the distinction) I would have punched the guy in the face. I have a short tolerance for the stupidity of the "educated". If this is really what people have to go through (I don't know if this is an exaggeration) but I if people are like this, I would seriously have to restrain myself. Dear gosh, really...
we do, in college an university... even from the accessibility office
sadly this is not an exaggeration. the things he said are things you hear in this profession
This is incredibly funny--I showed it to an office full of terps today and everyone was in hysterics! The things that are so funny about it are that we have all met this teacher and been asked inane questions and the interpreter's responses which are absolutely priceless! Brava! More, more!:)
This is hilarious but at the same time it's so sad how the average hearing person is so ignorant.
yeah, you should totally do that. LOL!!! dear Lord, I love this video...watched it three times already.
As a fellow interpreter I'd like to thank you guys. Awesome work.
I'm a terp, too. It's just amazing what folks with all kinds of degrees will come up with.
Terp: "Just look at her and speak in English."
Hearie: "But how will she understand what I say?"
Aargh!!
LOL this is awesome. As an interpreting student I hear about all sorts of things that interpreters are asked by other people.
This was so funny and sad because so many people feel that way. When I told someone I was learning ASL, they asked me if anyone "still uses that". Ugh!
More! More! More! HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes Lynne, that will be great - a job interview. You must be having so much fun doing these - it is what ALL of us want to say! We also should all start greeting each other with the professor's "sign language" at conferences and such - our secret greeting!!!
I don't know you, but you've hit all the nails on the head. Thanks for the laughs. :o)
And I'm dying from laughter. Haha
kkkk Cool! I´m a sign language interpreter n sometimes I meet some guys like that.
Mike Diano could you give examples? That sounds hilarious.
Excellent!! I was CRACKING up!!! Major! Whoo.... *tear*
Love this video, my wife is hard of hearing and although I haven't encountered all of these questions in one situation, each question is accurate.
Consider this the greatest hits of dumb questions regarding sign language interpreters.
Well, there are some gestures that resemble real signs and handshapes--WOW, STAR, the ILY handshape, and something that kind of resembles PLAN--but it's true, it means nothing in ASL.
@signoutloud2 I've uploaded captions from a transcript I typed and saved as a .txt document, but I'll look into using annotations next time; I like the look of that better than the captions I have.
And thank you! Glad you've enjoyed the videos and were inspired to do your own!
I saw there was a comment earlier about captioning-- it's deleted now, so maybe that means you did get the captions to work, but for anyone else who's wondering, the videos are captioned so deaf people can view them also. If you click the "CC" below the video, that should bring up the captions.
People:
Interptreter: don't get fired, don't get fired...
LOVE it!!! keep 'em coming!!!
champ! this video will never get old. lol!!
This is too hilarious, because it's so painfully true! I was mentioning sign language to my hearing students and one asked "so did you have to learn Braille?" ....lolwut? So... yeah. (:
This seems like actual stuff I’d be on the brink of saying
@jaredarchambeau Thanks, glad you're enjoying it! It actually is captioned already, so if you click the "CC" below the video, the captions should come up.
Lynne (from another Lynne) these are great!!! I am not sure which one is my favorite and look forward to seeing more!!! Mental Health is next ;) could be fun!!!
You're not being overlooked; my videos are captioned. If you click the "CC" at the bottom of the video screen, the captions should come up.
I cannot tell you how much i love this! i look forward to the mental health one! how i wish we could say some of this stuff! ROFL! I have been accused of hand flapping. hysterical!!!
@rickibunnyrabbit Thanks, glad you like the videos! Actually they're already captioned, so when you click the "CC" button below the video, the captions should come up.
well the first sign meant " Love"
although I wished this was captioned so I could send it to friend of mine who is deaf he'd love it!!!!
This is so awesome, even my non-signing hubby was ROFL at the "hello"
I love this. It's so sarcastic and the guy is so clueless. xD
This is brilliant! Very funny!
This video is so true I hate how teachers treat deaf students different I'm not deaf at all but after 3 years of asl I love ita
@rkpdmbfan Hi, great to hear you've enjoyed the videos! They are all captioned, so if you click on the "CC" below the video, the captions should show up.
Wow, that interpreter is totally April Ludgate.
Lol I am so sorry us hearing people are sometimes “not so smart” XD
Oh my gosh....too funny! I have to explain like this to people about my fiance who's deaf. It is so true!
Sooo sad, yet sooo ture. Every freakin' day :) Great job!
"Probably on the back of a centaur, or carried on a couch by a bunch of shirtless men like she's Cleopatra!"
hahaha
"...
What about you? Are you allowed to drive?"
This is truly hilarious :D
Thank you very much for making these videos! You are addressing the problem with such humour!
I just died! Omg! So hilarious! The first time I saw this at 2:06 I accidentally clicked pause, because I was uncontrollably laughing. And I kept laughing because it went with what was said in the video. I've never laughed so hard.
@brendabrueggemann That's weird-- when I click on the "CC" at the bottom, the captions come up, so they are working.
Let me know if you're able to see it if you try on a different computer.
It's like any language--some people will pick it up faster than others, but it takes a lot of time to become fluent. Taking a good course would allow you to have some simple conversations.
This made me crack up, I'd like to think that as a hearing person I'm not that ignorant about these things.
Hilarious video that is sadly what actually happens to many sign language interpreters.
lynnekelly2000 - Your videos totally rock! I was randomly checking out UA-cam videos based on a theme then was indirectly led to your videos. I was laughing and laughing! Thank you for sharing your experiences as an interpreter, I can't wait to check out the rest of your videos! :)
I actually had a high level (vp level) boss who told the interpreter not to come to a talk he gave because he thought it would be distracting. If it wasn't his last week on the job, I would have reported him to EEO; as it was, I was just relieved he was leaving.
ahhaahah i love these videos!!! i don't know how you do it but you must be a terp cuz you know exactly what we go through.
i've seen this and the video about a day in the life of an audiologist. please make one for teachers of the deaf next!
This is brilliant!
I too like to be super mean to people who aren't malicious, just ignorant.
@mkrajnak It is captioned; captions should come up when you hit the "CC" button at the bottom of the video.
Thanks so much!! I love this!
So funny. Thanks for sharing.
roflmao that was great. now my family thinks im crazy over here laughing my ass off.
Been there, lived that...LOL thanks for the laughs....because sometimes that's all you can do while you think what a moron the other person is inside.
@luthienthefair21 Eeek, I just made this one two days ago! Oh, the pressure to be funny more than once...
Actually I think the next video will be in a job interview setting, but there's plenty of fodder for more classroom videos.
Now I'm pissed and I haven't even gotten half way through the video.
I’d be a bit weirded out if a person signed that to me.