Deaf News: Here’s how to say ‘Donald Trump’ in American Sign Language.
The Washington Post: Only the most colorful politicians get special names in sign language assigned to them by the Deaf community, everyone else’s names are finger spelled, one letter at a time.
Sign language users have proposed name signs for two of the current presidential candidates, but they haven’t really caught on yet, says Melissa Malzkuhn, co-founder and a developer of The ASL App, which teaches conversational American Sign Language in the United States.
Donald Trump: Use your hand to emulate what might happen if a stiff wind came in contact with Trump’s hair.
Here are a few signs being batted around this election cycle, plus the slang signs for several presidents in the past and present... HERE.
How do you sign "new" words? The Deaf community works as a network, collectively brainstorming new sign language term over the web, until dominant emerge.
Hope and Fears: As language evolves, the powers that regulate language tend to shift. Just look at the Oxford English Dictionary, who added terms like “duck face,” “lolcat,” and “hawt” to their prestigious lexicon this past December. For the English-speaking world, these additions are anywhere from ridiculous to annoying but at the end of the day, the terms are accepted and agreed upon.
But how do these new, internet-laden turns of phrase enter the sign language community? Was there a way of expressing “selfie” in ASL, was there a sign for “photobomb?” Our simplistic question turned into a larger conversation about the nature of communication.
We turned to Bill Vicars, the president and owner of an organization called Lifeprint, a company who educates through “technology-enhanced delivery of ASL Instruction, excursion-based instruction (trips to amusement parks), and extended-immersion-based program coordination (intense two-week residencies).”
Vicars himself is Deaf/HH, which means he is hard of hearing and culturally Deaf as he has immersed himself in the Deaf community. “In addition to my co workers, the majority of my friends are Deaf… my wife is Deaf,” Vicars explains. (Capitalizing ‘Deaf’ refers to the Deaf community, as noted by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries, in Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture (1988), “We use the lowercase deaf when referring to the audiological condition of not hearing, and the uppercase Deaf when referring to a particular group of deaf people who share a language - American Sign Language and a culture.”
Vicars' website also offers a dictionary of ASL signs. The dictionary has been an ongoing project for Vicars since he started his organization and his means of including words is a multi-tiered process. photobombs: Read The Full Story.
‘The Simpsons’ have predicted the future and we haven’t noticed it.
HOLLYWOOD -- The Simpsons has taken historical, cultural, and political people and events and turned them into the butts of the longest-running satire in television history. Most of the time they're making fun of something that just happened, but what about all those times when The Simpsons created it first? Does this mean the show can predict the future? Watch the video clips.
From predicting Donald Trumps run for presidency to the massive outbreak of the Ebola virus, we count down 10 Times The Simpsons Predicted The Future.
‘The Simpsons’ have predicted the future - 1 to 21 times:
1. In 1999, radiation spawned mutant tomatoes.
Season 11, Episode 5, “E-I-E-I-D’oh!” Full mutant vegetable article here.
2. In 2008, Homer’s voting machine changed his vote.
Season 20, Episode 4, “Treehouse of Horror XIX” Full faulty machine article here.
3. In 1995, an entire lemon tree was stolen.
Season 6, Episode 24, “Lemon of Troy” Full lemon theft article here.
Season 6, Episode 19, “Lisa’s Wedding” Full “Smartwatch” segment here.
5. In 1996, TV evangelists worshipped “the all-mighty dollar.”
Season 7, Episode 12, “Team Homer” Full pope article here.
6. In 1994, horse meat was a secret ingredient.
Season 5, Episode 19, “Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song” Full horse article here.
7. In 1998, Professor Fink made hamburger earmuffs.
Season 10, Episode 2, “The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace” Full hamburger earmuffs article here.
8. In 1994, an Apple product wasn’t always sure what its owner was trying to say.
Season 6, Episode 8, “Lisa on Ice” FUN FACT: “Eat up Martha” helped design the iPhone. Read about that here.
9. In 1991, Ringo took decades to respond to his fans.
“They took the time to write me, and I don’t care if it takes me another 20 years. I’m going to answer every one of them.” Season 2, Episode 18, “Brush With Greatness” Full Beatles article here.
10. In 1998, Springfield kids were stoked about a yard work simulator.
Season 9, Episode 12, “Bart Carny”
11. In 1995, Lisa’s “future” college librarian was a robot.
Season 6, Episode 19, “Lisa’s Wedding” Full robot librarian article here.
12. In 1992, Herb Powell built a baby translator.
Season 3, Episode 24, “Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?” Full baby translator article here.
13. In 1995, a “future” dorm room had a Rolling Stones tour poster.
Season 6, Episode 19, “Lisa’s Wedding”
14. In 2002, before Guitar Hero existed, Mick and Keith gave Homer a Guitar Hero jacket.
Season 14, Episode 2, “How I Spent My Strummer Vacation” Full “Guitar Hero” clip here.
15. In 1991, Homer dreamed of the Land of Chocolate during a meeting.
Season 3, Episode 11, “Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk” See full chocolate land article here.
16. In 1996, a high-tech intercom looked exactly like what would become the first-generation iPod.
Season 8, Episode 5, “Bart After Dark” Full iPod commercial here.
17. In 1993, Gunter and Ernst were attacked by one of their tigers.
Season 5, Episode 10, “$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)”
Full article here.
18. In 1998, Homer stole used cooking grease to turn into quick cash.
Season 10, Episode 1, “Lard of the Dance” Full grease article here.
19. In 1995, “future” phones had video capabilities.
Season 6, Episode 19, “Lisa’s Wedding” Full iPhone FaceTime commercial here.
20. In 2009, a sign was not a cop.
Season 20, Episode 13, “Gone Maggie Gone” More of our photos of tourists ignoring shutdown signs here.
21. And in 1994, Homer did that thing.
Season 6, Episode 5, “Sideshow Bob Roberts” Full “Wrecking Ball” music video here.
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