WASHINGTON, DC -- This is a special room in New York with his ABC news digital special reports speaking gibberish with his hands, experts say.
About the man who steady provided sign language translation on the stage during Nelson Mandela's memorial service and children's children with world leaders the gestures. Apparently all made up in signing any language, BBC's Ross has more information from Johannesburg and Barack Obama was one of the busiest men on the planet.
Barack Obama the man next to him doing the sign language interpreting the speeches at the memorial ceremony for Nelson Mandela. He did it for hours. But Deaf people started complaining over the Internet that they were missing out the chair of the society of South Africa came to tell us what he made at the ceremony.
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Now is sending them some stood it doesn't have meaning that there I don't know what this means of the sign language interpreter.
So together we watched one of Nelson Mandela's grandchildren deliver. You can see even wonders if a rocking horse was mentioned in the podium because the interpreter the for one. Many people that hope that that be plenty of singing and dancing to celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela they weren't really ready for all those long speeches at the ceremony. But the biggest headache now for the South African government which organized the event is to explain how this man got the job.
Fortunately from local TV it's clear that to interpret his a completely different page. An extraordinary case of lost in translation.
For more on this I'm joined now by the president of the National Association of the Deaf Chris Wagner was talking with as via an interpreter. What was the signer do weighing that make people think he was a fake... Read The Full Story.
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