#Interpreters

[saywhat-politics]

Since Trump took office all videos with American Sign Language interpreters have been removed from the White House website and YouTube channels. What could be the point of this beyond pure cruelty?

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Gustavus Hindman Miller - 10,000 Dreams Interpreted - Aquarius - 1975 (cover illustration by Gillian Hills)

[gayanddeaf]

had a dream where i bumped into an interpreter who i haven’t seen since i was like ten. as we were chatting, one random stranger passed by and complimented me on my outfit, and the interpreter interpreted that one sentence. she then proceeded to bill me for the service. while confused, i still paid for it, not paying attention at all to the price.

when i saw the receipt, she had charged me $669 for interpreting a single line of compliment. oh i was so livid and was so prepared to sue her.

[lifeinacartoon]

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So beautiful to see Take That recognising Deaf and Hard of hearing community <3

[united-nations-headquarters]

we briefly interrupt our regular UN content to appreciate this UN interpreter's amazing hair

[theothersarshi]

I have interpreted for free as someone with no training a few times and oh my god i had respect for the job before but even more now. Not even just how exhausting it is to do over longer times but also how fucking unhelpful some people are when you're there to translate for them.

Oh, definitely.

I mean, it's always difficult to estimate how difficult a job is, especially if you've never done it before, but some people really expect some jobs to be super easy.

I once interpreted for someone I knew on a whim, because he didn't understand English very well and things were going far above his head - and, I don't know, it seemed like the proper thing to do? It wasn't a very long exchange, anyway.

So afterwards he said, "Wow, you really suck at translating, don't you?"

Me, "?!?!"

Him, "You were going "um" and "err" there. If you knew English very well, you could do it properly and just repeat what they say."

Like. Dude. Your English is so bad. You're basically monolingual. I was doing this. Because you were left out. Also. How would you like. A kick to the shins.

[seniouesbabes]

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[that-1-url]

Interpreters?

I have been searching for answers to this question and haven’t found anything, so I thought I would just ask. I am writing a story with a mute character who uses sign language to communicate. Since most people aren’t fluent in asl (or other sign languages) I was thinking of giving him an interpreter. In my research I realized I wasn’t sure if there were interpreters for m/Mute sign language users but when I tried to search to see if that was a thing, only d/Deaf / HoH as well as spoken language interpreting came up, with no mention of Mute people. Is it a thing for m/Mute sign language users to have interpreters? Sorry if this is a stupid question

(also apologies for any spelling mistakes it is not my strong suit)

[shutyoureyes7]

It's not a jab if it's true. It's just facts. You cannot make gold from sh**, as we Germans say. And you cannot interpret an unintelligible man's words intelligibly. It is known.

The live-TV interpreter who said "Sag mal, wie lange wollt ihr bei dem Scheiß bleiben?!" has made a statement. I admire him hugely for not apologizing for what he said, or even technically retracting it, at any point in this statement. Instead, he takes the opportunity to make a jab at Trump's inability to put a reasonable sentence together:

Jetzt reagiert auch Dolmetscher Frank Deja, der für den Fauxpas gesorgt hatte. "Ich war überzeugt, ich hätte mich stumm geschaltet. Ich habe aber im Eifer des Gefechts die falsche Taste gedrückt. Wir haben als Dolmetscher sogenannte Räusper-Tasten, mit denen wir uns stummschalten können. Dann geht das eben nicht über den Sender – und meine Aussage sollte natürlich auch nicht über den Sender gehen", erklärt er "n-tv". Seinen Zwischenruf solle man nicht als politisches Statement deuten. "Nein, das wäre ganz verfehlt. Die politischen Inhalte sind nicht das Problem", meint Deja und fügt hinzu: "Ich dolmetsche ständig Leute, mit deren politischen Inhalten ich nicht einverstanden bin. Das Problem bei Trump war, dass er auf einmal anfing, frei zu assoziieren oder dreimal hintereinander dasselbe zu sagen. Diesen wirren Gedankensprüngen zu folgen, ist die Schwierigkeit beim Dolmetschen." Er erklärt: "Wenn ein Redner mit geordneten Gedanken redet, dann kann man, sobald der Satz angefangen hat, schon ungefähr erahnen, wie es weitergeht. Man kann auf dieser Welle weiter surfen. Aber bei Trump ist das unmöglich."

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[twinliches]

i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Alex Nagib-Rath - Como Interpretar Los Sueños - Aura/Everest - 1968

[gayanddeaf]

some people in the community are so anti hearing it’s kinda weird. some to the point where they don’t even want interpreters interacting with us since they’re “infiltrating the Deaf community”. (i personally think this mindset is absurd)

yes i understand that hearing people have constantly oppressed us. heck, i even got points removed from my grade cuz the professor went past the class time and the interpreter had to leave so i did. i was once constantly fed false info from a project partner all because he didn’t want to put in effort to communicate with me. i get it, i do have trauma associated with hearing people. hearing people can be awful.

key word: can. not always.

but i think what they don’t understand is that hearing people are the ones who decide whether a Deaf child gets access to community, not us. shouldn’t we at least try to educate them, at least maintain a positive relationship. of course, no one community is a monolith, and ours certainty is not. but first impressions do matter.

if hearing people were to meet someone who’s anti-hearing, they get turned off and as a result, if they were to have a Deaf child, that child might suffer language deprivation. there’s a lot of domino effect involved.

[tawnysoup]

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[noodles-and-tea]

POV you’re watching Jayce and Viktor give their science presentation but one of them clearly pulled an all nighter