[Image description: Thumbnail for a YouTube video from PBS Digital Studio’s “Otherwords” series: Why Sign Language Was Banned in America. The host appears on the left, while behind her are the fingerspelled letters “a” “s” and “l” from the American Sign Language Alphabet. Description ends]
Eye contact.
Closed captioned.
Simultaneous interpretation into ASL in the lower right corner.
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I learned the Frankenstein Monster Mess that is Signed Exact English, which is neither ASL nor English (pure English grammar, including words that are totally unnecessary in a visual language, but with ASL vocabulary), when I was 11 years old, but at least it planted the right phonemes in my head. And then, when I was in grad school in my 20s, I took the opportunity to take an immersion class in ASL 101 and 102 (Voice-Off).
All my graduate-level classes were late afternoon and evening, and my ASL classes were in the first block of classes in the morning on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So, from Monday evening until Tuesday afternoon, and from Wednesday evening until Thursday evening, I had very little reason to use my voice at all, and my brain was focused on visual language as my main channel of communication.
And I don’t know exactly why, but on those days, I just felt calmer and more “balanced.” Maybe it was because I was thinking in a “new” language, and my anxious and negative self-talk hadn’t found that pathway yet. Or maybe, as suggested in this video, the workload of thinking was spread throughout more regions of my brain, so no one region had to work as hard.
Anyway, I haven’t had a chance to practice ASL since that class, and I can feel myself losing it. And that makes me sad.
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I can’t believe they cut out scenes from call the midwife when they put it on PBS and Netflix. Not only does the story make less sense but the majority of episodes with Patsy and Delia in them have scenes cut.
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What Constellations Mean to Different Cultures, March 15, 2022
The stars have guided and entertained us for thousands of years. Here we explore some of the messages people have seen in the stars through the millennia and look forward to how we might relate to the stars in the future.
Hosted by Dr. Moiya McTier & Dr. Emily Zarka, FATE & FABLED explores the stories and characters of mythologies from all around the world - why they came to be and how they impact us still today.
Fate & Fabled, PBS Digital Studios
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PBS Digital Studios: Garden Of Your Mind
Down to the last three. One of the first videos on Youtube I liked. First heard it on Atop The Fourth Wall, of all places. If people say you can't remix anything, introduce them to BotanicSage. If they say you can't make remixed things wholesome, well...show them this video.
Song Score: 1600/10
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Proper closed Captions. Eye contact.
Summary: an overview of one-horned mythical beasts from around the world, including ancient Babylonia, Greece, and China. It concludes with a discussion of how the Unicorn has been adopted as a symbol of Queer Pride.
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Still experimenting with the features of clip studio. Here's a panel test, not really any story or context associated with this, so you can interpret however you want, I guess it's something along the area of Mikey testing out his mystic abilities and losing control in a confined space.
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