Re: sign language in Israel


qophee@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Michael Hamm のメッセージ:

My in-laws receive a television channel via satellite from Israel. It is
not one of Israel's channels precisely, but, rather, a collection of
Israeli stations' programs collected specifically for the States. On a
news program recently, there was a sign-language interpreter signing what
seemed to me to be American Sign Language. I doubt whether this was added
to the broadcast for the Stateside rebroadcast -- I assume it was there on
the original -- but am not sure. My question is, I guess, whether ASL is
used in Israel.


Michael Hamm のメッセージ:

My in-laws receive a television channel via satellite from Israel. It is
not one of Israel's channels precisely, but, rather, a collection of
Israeli stations' programs collected specifically for the States. On a
news program recently, there was a sign-language interpreter signing what
seemed to me to be American Sign Language. I doubt whether this was added
to the broadcast for the Stateside rebroadcast -- I assume it was there on
the original -- but am not sure. My question is, I guess, whether ASL is
used in Israel.


From an individualized, selfish viewpoint, if Isarel have developed far
enough in the field of communication means for deaf community, then why
would they borrow ASL or FSL ?
Sign-language is used to expressing thoughts for unlucky people who had
some irreversible nerve damage leading to an inedequate auditory
contact with surroundings. The language itself does have special
features representing specific grammatical points for the deaf to read
the signs but not absolutely consistent at all time, which then burdens
the interpreter performance to handle each individual situation more
appropriately and 'dynamically'. If that is supposed to be changed all
the time depending on various cases, then why a discrimination one
should have in mind over the origins of such a language system ?
Language changes and evolves over time, never does a language make one
country unique or the best. It does makes one different from others but
it still shares common points with them as a fact...

What a bizarre understanding of Deaf Sign. I dare you to go to the
Gallaudet campus and proclaim this attitude.

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