It’s Not News Really

[Bobbisox1]

But I can’t take my eyes of the fella signing for Boris’s briefing currently being shown, he looks in pain :0(
When he’s saying about the injection, he winces :0(

[naomi24]

Physical expressions are part of signing.

[Bobbisox1]

Yes I’m sure but this man is the most visual one I’ve seen Naomi

[naomi24]

Haha! Maybe he’s really …really … scared of needles!

[gness]

MrG asked me why we pulled faces when signing. There really is a good reason for it, Bobbi. It's exactly like you using your voice to give expression and correct meaning to what you are saying.
And because a deaf person is reading your hands facial expressions have to be a bit exaggerated to be seen in the peripheral vision.

[Atheist]

Maybe he's wincing at what Johnson is saying. I always find it amusing imagining what signers are really signing when they do their stuff. I've never seen Johnsion with a signer; I thought it was only the civilised bits of the UK which bothered to think about helping others.

[gness]

Some of us do express more than others all the time, Bobbi. Some depending on the situation. How far up my eyebrows went and how much my eyes rolled would depend on how long winded the head was being during assembly.... ;-)

[Bobbisox1]

To be honest Atheist this is the first signer I’ve seen with him

[Bobbisox1]

Do you sign Gness?I think it’s a brilliant thing to do, I can but not so fluent as what you see on TV , just the very basic

[bednobs]

There has always been a signer on bbc news 24

[naomi24]

Atheist, 17.18, charming as always.

[Atheist]

I often imagine they are making 'vomit' faces, or drawing their hand like a knife across their throat. I'm surprised that I haven't seen a comic sketch on that subject.

[Bobbisox1]

Ah perhaps that’s it, I’ve always watched previous briefings on BBBC not their news channel

[Atheist]

Aaaaah, thanks, Naomi. :-)
I do follow your posts to try to learn how to be charming.

[naomi24]

You’re not doing very well then. You really must try harder, atheist.

[Peter Pedant]

yes - - - no he's good
and a regular ( signer)

They get tested for signing ( yes a signing viva) and prepare their texts - of course

Facial thingeys are paramount - you cant sign " far more cases today!" and look happy

The British Indian is really good - but may only be using Manchester dialect ( the set of signs commonly used in M)

Metaphors are out - - we have to suck it and see - - I dont want to get into bed with the vaxxers....

and implied double negatives are hell - - - we arent sure if the peak rate has been reached
compared to: we are sure the peak has not been reached

[Peter Pedant]

Hey ed - I think she is following me around !

[Atheist]

Naomi, 17:28.
Oh, how many times I've heard a woman say that!

[gness]

I worked for many years in a hearing unit attached to a school Bobbi. When the children joined the classes for lessons and assembly I would do the signing.
A visitor doing an assembly would always be asked to speak slowly but they'd forget. Some mornings all the signers would end up looking like demented windmills trying to keep up.

[naomi24]

I don’t doubt it.

[Peter Pedant]

// I'm surprised that I haven't seen a comic sketch on that subject.//

hmm not very PC - you cd do one on the monty python hungarian translation sketch ( " the phrase can I have a hamburger please is translated as " can I fondle your bum" )

There is one on You tube - something like " and the Brexiters deny that £350m a week cd go to the NHS" and the signer throws her eyes to the ceiling....

There is an ad for CRUC ( ca research) where the signer signs " and the cancer in your chest is much smaller "- signs of joy and gasps and grunts
and the consultant onc has a look of "WHAT am I doing in this zoo"