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Transcription: [00:23:15]
{SPEAKER name="Steve Jones"}
and find out what the difference was. It's, it's not a matter of shortcuts that, that most hearing people seem to think that sign language consists of, it is a different language and you use it
[00:23:33]
in different ways. If uh, if I wanted to say in English "I am going to the store," you can make it easier just saying "I'm going to the store." That's not clear, no, no a little more explanation um.
[00:23:55]
{SPEAKER name="Sheila Grinnell"}
It's clear to me, it's beautiful
{SPEAKER name="Steve Jones"}
Oh okay, okay, okay, another one, the first one I learned.
[00:24:04]
In English, in English order you'd say 'take down the drapes' in sign language you have to say, 'drapes take them down' because you can't take down something until you have something.
[00:24:14]
So first, first you need a concept of the drapes and then you take them down. When you translate that into English order it sounds horrible because it's not English language.
[00:24:29]
It's like, old world languages and changed into American English. A perfect, a perfect example is 'throw mamma from the train a kiss.' It, it sounds terrible until you get to the, the part about the kiss.
[00:24:51]

{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
Thank you very much yes, that's, that's, that's an important explanation. ASL is an entirely different language from English, it works on very different principles that linguists are just beginning to understand in a fairly complete way.
[00:25:05]
It has its own word order um, and well you'll learn a little more in our sign language class. Let me ask if there are more questions out there?
[00:25:16]
{SPEAKER name="Audience Member"}
Hearing people who are learning sign sometimes use English words, signing them in order to make their own kind of jokes and I wonder if deaf people ever do any of that, one that I can think about is 'cop out'-