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More on the ASL class
Jun. 22nd, 2005 07:06 amI learned something interesting last night.
As you may recall, the instructor is banning analogies and metaphors from our poem's translation. If we see one, we are supposed to sign "what the poem means to us" instead of what it actually says.
Someone in the class got really annoyed with the instructor when she went off on her little example about "what does it MEAN when you say the Lord is my shepherd? Does it literally mean that you are wooly and white and get shaved every couple months and he stands around nearby with a curvy stick?" This girl wanted very badly to literally sign a metaphor, but the instructor wouldn't let her, so the girl finally asked the instructor how SHE would sign it.
The instructor said, "I wouldn't. I'd sign about the shepherd. But you're not good enough to sign that, you'll get it all wrong, so we're signing what it means to you instead."
So... it isn't that our instructor is condescending to deaf people. She's just condescending to US.
It's still an excuse to sign "The Highwayman" in front of an audience, though, and it will get me a "Conversational ASL: Advanced Intermediate" certificate, so, eh, fine.
As you may recall, the instructor is banning analogies and metaphors from our poem's translation. If we see one, we are supposed to sign "what the poem means to us" instead of what it actually says.
Someone in the class got really annoyed with the instructor when she went off on her little example about "what does it MEAN when you say the Lord is my shepherd? Does it literally mean that you are wooly and white and get shaved every couple months and he stands around nearby with a curvy stick?" This girl wanted very badly to literally sign a metaphor, but the instructor wouldn't let her, so the girl finally asked the instructor how SHE would sign it.
The instructor said, "I wouldn't. I'd sign about the shepherd. But you're not good enough to sign that, you'll get it all wrong, so we're signing what it means to you instead."
So... it isn't that our instructor is condescending to deaf people. She's just condescending to US.
It's still an excuse to sign "The Highwayman" in front of an audience, though, and it will get me a "Conversational ASL: Advanced Intermediate" certificate, so, eh, fine.
