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Transcription: [00:25:35]
{SPEAKER name="Audience Member"}
would that be understood by very many deaf people?
[00:24:42]
{SPEAKER name="Sheila Grinnell"}
He has one, Steve has one.

[00:25:45]
{SPEAKER name="Steve Jones"}
We use this one, this is sign language well for milk, with one hand. Your milking a cow, I'm milking a cow and this is pasteurised milk [[Laughter]]
[00:25:57]
{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
Jan.
{SPEAKER name="Jan DeLap/Sheila Grinnell (interpreter)"}
I think I'd like to point out that you asked 'cop out', would be understood by the deaf people.
[00:26:08]
Um deaf people do need a lot of reading, their time is limited.
[00:26:15]
There's always new slangs appearing, people talking and your hearing it and you understand the meanings, deaf people don't have that opportunity unless more and more TV programs are captioned,
[00:26:26]
more films are captioned, then we will know what you hearing people are talking about. So probably you might say things that a deaf person may look at you and not really catch it. Not really understand it so.
[00:26:42]

{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}

It is true though isn't it because there is so much interaction between English and ASL speakers and signers, there are some puns between English and sign language that are fairly widely used in the deaf community aren't there?

[00:26:59]
Could you show us some of those? Libby would you like to show us one?
[00:27:07]

{SPEAKER name="Libby Hathaway/Sheila Grinnell (interpreter)"}
Like for example 'I understand you', and then I, you see.
[00:27:17]
Things are under here, on the bottom, under, you stand like this, I understand, that's under, understand. We make fun of that like.
[00:27:32]

{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
Thank you
{SPEAKER name="Libby Hathaway/Sheila Grinnell (interpreter)"}
Do you understand that one? [laughs] Do you understand, do you? Or do you understand a little bit? Like this under stand.
[00:27:42]
{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
Notice what she's doing? You understand, this, the sign for understand, the normal sign like a light bulb going off