Oh ... THAT ASL not the one from IRC

My sister is deaf. I know enough ASL to know this woman is truly exceptionally skilled. Not only is it accurate but also beautifully interpreted. Those of you who know more than one language know that it is never possible to directly translate almost anything. In the case of english to ASL, expressions that we may use a dozen words for are condensed into perhaps half as many signs or even less in some cases. For this song, conveying Eminem's eloquent phrasing is ASL takes an impressive amount of artistic skill beyond just having the vocabulary. Massive props.

Shelby Mitchusson Responds To ASL ‘Lose Yourself’ Video
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Also more shelby rockin it https://youtu.be/M7TlXZ5dD1k

Gettin down live https://youtu.be/oNUJ4dWy7DM

I'm wondering if anyone who knows ASL could verify that she's actually signing what he raps, paraphrasing it, or just translating a small part of it. To me, not knowing ASL at all, it looks like she's skipping a lot that he says.

Mesmerising! I can't read ASL, but her dancing, facial expressions and air piano are really engaging. I'd love to see here do translation for hip-hop shows more often. I watched a second time just to see if I could figure out a bit of the ASL. I suspect she's paraphrasing, at least for a lot of the slang.

I think you all misunderstand me. I mean the donations don't do anything either for ASL. It's almost as pointless as donating for cancer research.

In America it's ASL, or American Sign Language. Even from different parts of the states, or within each community they can have lots of variation. (Was with a ASL interpreter for years and oldest daughter was hearing impaired.)

So it's quite possible he's signing a different dialect, so to speak. But the issue is even the South African's were complaining . . .

But yeah, there will be a lot of cross over in signs that have actual meanings, but for the most part, he was signing gibberish.

(Fun trivia, the monkey's from Penguins of Madagascar actually sign real ASL.)

This brings all kind of interesting questions to mind... How hard is it to learn to essentially use two languages at once - spoken (or sung) English and ASL in this case? And I assume you can't exactly rhyme in sign language, either - how does this all translate over? Not that "jingle bells" is exactly full of sense, but anyway.

Very proficient little girl. I've been around a lot of deaf people (oldest kid was language impaired and her mother is an ASL interpreter) and while this girl is rather cute from our perspective, this isn't terribly unusual.

The funny part is that she's doing it as part of the chorus and it appears she has hearing. If she is deaf as well, even more impressive.

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meme?

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I seriously have a crush on this woman.

You are not alone.

Yah, sign me up too.

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I seriously have a crush on this woman.


You are not alone.

It totally looks like a bunny getting smacked by a hammer. That's just my interpretation.>> ^deathcow:

Pretty cool. Now when I meet a deaf person I can illustrate a leafy tree falling on a jogger !!