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MONICA: Public Now.
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Hello everyone.
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Welcome to our discussion of
American sign language, and
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many aspects of deaf culture.
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We are privileged tonight
to have two
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speakers of ASL and Hangout.
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And we will be speaking
with them.
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Right now Daniel is
interpreting.
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And Booger, whose
name is Dylan.
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Dylan, I don't know which
to address you by.
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Which would you rather go by?
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I don't care.
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I go by Monica.
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MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN):
Dylan, OK, thumbs up.
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So to anyone watching, get
ready to learn some sign
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language and to talk
about deaf culture.
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So now I'm going to focus on
making sure that the screen
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shares the correct person
so everyone can see.
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MALE SPEAKER: You want to
get the link first?
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MONICA: Oh yeah, I also have to
pause to obtain the link.
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MALE SPEAKER: Now what
is the link for?
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MONICA: It's the broadcast
video.
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MALE SPEAKER: OK
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DANIEL: It's no big
deal to me.
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Let's just go on.
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It's fine Monica.
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MONICA: OK I just got it.
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Here we go.
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All right, so I will
put this in chat.
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And there is a link.
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And now let's talk about--
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here's the first question.
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How would you define
deaf culture?
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DANIEL: And this is Daniel.
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Just wanted to let you know
that Dylan is going to be
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answering the question.
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And he's going to sign
for a while.
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And then give me a chance to
interpret what he says.
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MONICA: Sounds good.
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DANIEL: Hi this is Dylan.
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Thank you all for being here.
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I was born deaf and my
parents are hearing.
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I spent about 15 years
in the theater.
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And I studied voice.
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And I also was raised by my
parents as a hearing person.
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That's how they wanted
to raise me.
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So they gave me a lot of
voice training as well.
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And so, even though I'm a deaf
person, I was raised in the
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hearing world.
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And yet I'm not exactly a part
of the hearing world.
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I am part of it.
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But I'm not.
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If that makes any
sense to you.
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I live in between two worlds,
the deaf world, and the
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hearing world.
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And this is Daniel.
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Can I just ask you, can you
please put him as the main
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picture when he's signing?
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Can you do that Monica?
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MONICA: Yes I can.
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And I have been putting him as
the main picture when he's
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signing so that people can
see each individual sign.
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DANIEL: Oh I'm not
seeing that.
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MALE SPEAKER: Yeah,
you won't see it.
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Only the stream sees it.
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DANIEL: Oh, OK.
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So I have to click on him if
I want to see him in full.
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MALE SPEAKER: That's right.
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DANIEL: OK.
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Get the technology worked
out, all right.
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And he's saying deaf culture
is really not that much
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different from hearing
culture.
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The difference is that we
don't have hearing.
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So communication is a little
bit different.
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And it's funny for deaf people
when they get on public
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transportation and hearing
people watch them talking with
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each other in sign language .
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And hearing people don't
understand why they're making
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so much noise.
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Well, when they make signs
that hit the hands.
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And why do their faces
look the way they do?
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Are they angry?
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Are they upset?
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People misunderstand the facial
expressions and the
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noises that deaf people when
they talk with each other.
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And hearing people aren't used
to hearing the way deaf
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people's voices sound when
they speak English either
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because hearing people can
hear themselves speak.
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And they have trained voices.
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They're not used to hearing
voices that are untrained.
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And they're not used to hearing
the sounds that come
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along with sign language
either.
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The only way that hearing people
can get an idea of what
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it might be like to be deaf
is if they walk around the
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streets with their hands over
their ears, or covering their
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ears in some way.
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And just see people walking
around in the
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world with no sound.
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And then you'll understand what
it's like to be deaf.
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And sign language is different
from English because we don't
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use all the little words
that people use
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when they speak English.
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All we have to sign is the sign
for where and the sign
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for bathroom.
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Or, in American sign language
grammar, you could even say
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bathroom, where.
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Hearing people, people that
speak English, they seem to
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love using words and they don't
mind taking a long time
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to say something.
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Whereas, with deaf people, we
don't have patience for that.
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And our language is much
more abbreviated.
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So we can say things quickly
and get to the point.
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Just a moment, Dylan is asking
me, the interpreter, if I
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understand what he's saying.
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And I want to make sure
that I do understand.
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OK, thanks.
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So Dylan is saying that it seems
like hearing people,
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people in the hearing culture,
people who speak English, they
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like to analyze language
a lot more.
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They like to spend a lot more
time saying things.
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And deaf people, and American
sign language itself, tends to
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be a lot more to the point.
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A lot more direct, and
not so complicated.
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And, unfortunately, this simple
language that we have
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causes a lot hearing people to
think that we are stupid or
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mentally retarded.
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And really it's just that our
language is very short and
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abbreviated.
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This is--
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just a moment, OK.
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All right, this is Daniel.
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I have to get going.
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But Dylan is saying if you'd
like to ask me any questions,
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please feel free to type
them in the chat box.
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And I'll actually answer
them in my own voice.
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MONICA: Awesome.
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DANIEL: Thanks for inviting
me Monica.
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Take care.
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MONICA: Thank you
so much Daniel.
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FEMALE SPEAKER 1: Bye Daniel.
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Thank you.
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DANIEL: I'll watch later.
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MONICA: Very cool, everybody
thumbs up for Daniel.
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DYLAN: All right, ladies
and gentlemen.
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I can speak for myself.
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I knows that's a very
big surprise.
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I will explain how I grew
up, when I learned
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how to speak well.
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I've been an actor for
about 15 years.
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So I learned how
to use my voice
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through lots of practice.
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And mostly it's bone
conduction.
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For you hearing people, if you
plugged your ears and you
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spoke, you can hear yourself.
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So my words are all about how
I hear myself through bone
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conduction.
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So that's how I'm able
to speak precisely.
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Now, there are a lot
of words that it's
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hard for me to pronounce.
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But after 38 years of
practice you kind
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of get used to speaking.
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Now, like I said, I grew up
in the hearing world.
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And I went through mainstream
school.
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I never had deaf culture
practice because everybody
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around me did not speak
that language.
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So that's why I have a
bit of both worlds.
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It's a little bit easier for me
to sign than it is to speak
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because of--
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how do I explain, the language
translation is different.
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It's like Spanish to English
if that makes sense.
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Chloe, I had learned sign
language when I was very
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young, about five years old.
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My parents wanted me
to speak to them.
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But it kind of died off because
I'm the only deaf
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member in my whole family.
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So I studied myself,
sign language.
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I didn't join the deaf
culture until when I
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was about in college.
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Very good question, [? Peo. ?]
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Well, as I was growing up I had
only a little hearing in
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my right ear.
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But it was much below
speech level.
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But I was able to hear music.
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So I learned music, how to play
piano, play drums, and
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play guitar.
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So I had that luxury.
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But since I don't have that
hearing anymore, I have all
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the music theory in my head.
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And I understand what
music sounds like.
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So it never left me.
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OK, let's go on to the
next question here.
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Monica, well, join deaf culture,
well what I mean by
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that is I grew up in
the hearing world.
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I didn't have very many deaf
friends to communicate with.
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Not until much later in life
when I learned about all the
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great things in the deaf culture
that I had missed out
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from my childhood.
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Let's go back.
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I'm trying to scroll
back here.
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Let's see.
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Maddy James asked a question,
isn't sign
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language universal then?
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Well, it is universal.
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But it's not perceived in the
same way because every sign
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language has a different
dialect.
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A good example would be west
coast sign language versus
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east coast sign language.
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We have different signs.
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But it is based on English.
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OK, Chloe asked a question--
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Oh, no, Chloe said something,
let's see.
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Going down--
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OK, Stephen had written
something.
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I'm going to go ahead and
read what he wrote.
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I have a friend who is
deaf and we watch
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TV with closed caption.
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What do you think of
the quality of
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closed caption today?
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I'm not happy with the
quality of it myself.
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OK, well closed captioning,
it started out
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really, really slow.
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Back in the old days we had
those really big boxes that
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you had to buy that looks
like a DVR machine.
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And it would sit on top of your
TV. And it looks like
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it's slowly writing.
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Now, today it's a lot faster.
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It's very in sync
to the speech.
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Though, it depends on what show
that was captioned, what
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you were watching.
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OK, going down.
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OK, Renzo Sambrano, I think
is how you pronounce it.
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He had a question.
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Is sign language divided?
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What would you need to learn
Spanish using sign language?
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Like I said before,
sign language
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has different dialects.
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Every country has their
own different signs.
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So, by Span--
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OK, a good example would be here
in English sign language
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we say, thank you, thank you.
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Well, in Chinese sign, we go,
thank you, because that looks
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like somebody's bowing.
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So they say thank you.
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I personally like this
because this is cool.
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It's like somebody's bowing
when they say thank you.
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All right, let's go on
to the next question.
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Does anybody else
have any other
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questions about deaf culture.
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MONICA: I'll say anyone who is
watching the video and wants
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to type in a question on
the post, please do.
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If you have one, and then this
is tough because basically I'm
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asking something.
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Then I have to mute myself so
I can type it in to chat.
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So, sorry I have to
go on mute here.
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DYLAN: All right, Maddy James
said something that was very
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interesting.
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Excuse me.
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Maddy James says in England
all deaf sign language
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television is on only very early
hours of the morning.
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Is that the same in the States
or do you have signed
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television at daytime too?
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Well, as of recently, there have
been a lot of TV shows
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who have people who are
deaf signing shows.
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We have lots of closed
captions.
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I'm not sure about signing
programs. The only programs I
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know of would be on PBS, Public
Broadcasting System.
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So I'm not familiar with that.
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OK, Renzo has a question.
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Do you have any program for
non-deaf to be able to
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communicate with you besides
using sign language?
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Yes, very good question.
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Deaf people use cell phones.
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We use text messaging.
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We use AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, all
those chat messengers,
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including the Hangout
here as well.
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We have a little chat
program here.
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So we're pretty flexible with
today's technology.
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All right, first
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recommendation I have for Monica.
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Let me read what she wrote.
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How would best recommend someone
go about learning ASL
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if they want to?
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I actually recommend people to
first learn about the culture
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before they begin to sign.
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The most important thing that I
must stress to anybody, you
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can't just learn the language
and then expect deaf culture
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to understand you.
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The number one most important
thing is your facial
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expression.
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If you are signing with a frown
on your face deaf people
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perceive that as an
ugly statement, or
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whatever you're saying.
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And it can be very confusing.
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So taking a free course, even,
from an adult school, or
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college take introductory
course of
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American sign language.
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Learn about the culture first.
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The next step would be learning
how to do the
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alphabet in sign language.
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Next step from there would be to
learn how to spell signs as
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you're walking by places
or when you're driving.
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Let's see.
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What else do we have here?
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Yes, it depends.
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Monica has said is expression
similar to inflection.
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I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing
that right,
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inflection, in tone,
or reflection.
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I'm not sure what you
mean, Monica.
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MONICA: I just said if someone
says something in a very angry
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tone, like signing hello--
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CHLOE: You're talking.
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And he can't hear you, so--
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MONICA: I already typed.
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Chloe, I already typed
everything that I
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said in to the chat.
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So now I'm saying it out loud.
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So, like, this is stuff here.
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I'm trying to screen share
at the same time
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as type into chat.
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And also do this.
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So if I do mess up,
I apologize.
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I hope nobody is extremely
offended.
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It's just the best I can do.
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DYLAN: I guess, to answer your
question, Monica, from what I
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think I understand what you're
asking is our view on the
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entire spoken language is based
on emotion when people
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speak so we respond on that.
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I don't know how to explain that
in a way that you guys
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would understand.
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We read people how most hearing
people can't read if
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that makes sense.
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We see body language.
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We know something's up before
they even know it.
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OK.
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MONICA: So sorry about
the typing noise.
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I'm just responding
in the chat.
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DYLAN: [? Peo ?]
has a question.
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OK, he says, what is the best
way for us to approach a deaf
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person if we'd like to
communicate knowing ASL?
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The best way to come up to a
deaf person, first, say hello,
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or wave, say hi.
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And you would write
something down.
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Say I'm a hearing person.
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I'm very interested
in your language.
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And you can start any topics.
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Say, I'm so curious about
sign language.
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What is it about?
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Most people are happy to
explain and start a
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conversation with you.
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Most deaf people feel offended
when people just come up and
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they don't sign or anything,
and just talk.
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And if they ask you to
please write it down.
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And if you still talk.
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It's really, it's offending
in our culture.
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Monica says how can Google
help innovate Hangouts to
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better help deaf users.
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Well, that's a very
good question.
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Currently, as how it is set up
now that we have a chat area
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in the Hangouts here,
and we have video.
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Well, that pretty much is deaf
culture all in itself.
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We have all these same
technologies.
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And we've had it long before
the internet had it.
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We had video phones.
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So Google would probably
be best in how
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they have it already.
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However, there is some
discussion around Google
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talking about speech to text,
which would help.
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It would be nice if somebody
was speaking to me.
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And they would speak to the
computer and it would write
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what you said.
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That would be a godsend for
me to be able to do that.
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And it helps for people who
don't sign but they want to
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communicate with me.
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One thing that's kind of off
topic about Hangouts is I wish
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that we had moderation
for the Hangouts to--
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like if somebody came in, and
it was disrupting the
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Hangouts, boot them out
with one button.
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Good question, Monica.
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I'm very limited too,
about how much I
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can teach sign language.
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I've been asked by this a lot.
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So I don't know how to
respond to that.
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I would be happy to shows signs
of words and have people
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ask what they are.
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I can show examples I can show
examples of how they are in
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sentence structure, sure.
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MONICA: That would be awesome.
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DYLAN: Well, we don't
have signs for
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these kinds of things.
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So we kind of ad lib a lot for
things that are not in our
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immediate language.
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So for signing something like
Google+ you would just say
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[INAUDIBLE].
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That's what it looks like
when you look down.
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It looks like this when
you're looking at it.
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But facing towards you,
this is g, g plus.
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Very good question.
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Chloe says, tell us how to
ask where the toilet is.
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Well, in sign language we say
bathroom, which looks like the
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sign for t.
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Bathroom, you shake it.
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And then where.
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That means where is
the bathroom.
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But to a deaf person we
only need to know
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where is the bathroom.
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OK, good question by Sonya.
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I had thought doing spelling,
the palms should be facing the
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other person, no?
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Yes, in sign language culture
it's a little silly because if
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you have the palm facing towards
you and you're finger
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spelling you are talking
to yourself.
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So that's kind of a funny joke
in deaf culture when you see a
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deaf man signing to themselves
they talk to
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themselves this way.
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So, yes, your palm has to be
towards the person you're
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speaking to.
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OK, [? Peo ?] has a question.
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How do you handle anger?
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When you get angry how do
you tell each other off?
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I see, good question.
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Well, most of the time deaf
people are very, very direct
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in their anger and how
they say things.
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Like I said earlier, when
hearing people see deaf people
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sign they hear the hand slapping
when they're angry
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and they sign.
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But that doesn't always mean
that they're angry.
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So, for me, with my anger, I
usually just say it out loud.
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But if a deaf person can't say
things out loud, they sign it.
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They show they're visibly
frustrated.
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So I guess that answers
the question.
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What's very fascinating for me
is I live in both worlds.
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I understand the
hearing world.
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I also understand
the deaf world.
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And I see the conflicts.
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Now I'm going to bring up a
topic that has been plaguing
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me for the last few days.
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It's a very controversial topic
about cochlear implants.
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And it's a very big argument
in the deaf culture.
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In fact, a lot of deaf people
are very offended by the
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technology.
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Now I'm just going
to just be open.
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I'm not going to discuss
it because it's a very
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heavy-sided conversation
about this.
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My point of view that cochlear
implants should be decided
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upon the person who's having
the surgery, not the other
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people around them.
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So this has been a very tough
topic to talk about because
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hearing people, in general, feel
that they need to fix the
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disability, or fix
the handicap.
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Well deaf people like to
perceive that deafness is not
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a handicap.
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We are not limited.
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As you can see, I'm
speaking to you.
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And I'm deaf.
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I've never heard voices
in my life.
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That's kind of proof
right there.
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So the cochlear implant thing
should be a choice.
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Not something that one culture
needs to change the other to
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make it easier for
communications.
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It's wrong.
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So, like I said, it's not for
us to debate for this
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particular event.
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But it's something for you
guys all to think about.
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I'm going to give you a
hypothetical situation.
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What if the majority of society
was hearing and they
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decided to say that a surgery
to take away your child's
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hearing so you can sign
to the child.
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Now, would that be just as fair
compared to how a deaf
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child should be hearing?
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That's something just
to think about.
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It's not something
up for debate.
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MONICA: So I will stop here to
basically explain what a
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cochlear implant is.
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I can't type all this as
quickly as I'll say it.
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But there are many people
who don't know.
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It's a new technology.
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And it's an implant that is a
machine that you can basically
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take and they do a surgery to
implant it into the ear of
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someone who's deaf.
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And then they can kind
of switch it on.
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And the person can hear.
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And some people have
done this.
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But, like Booger is saying, it's
a very divisive issue in
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the deaf community because
it implies so many common
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notations about deafness being
a disability and something
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that has to be changed.
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And, basically, you have to--
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like, he feels that--
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and I can totally see
that point of view.
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So he said that the implant's
not reversible in the chat,
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like once you get it done
it's been undone.
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You can't undo it.
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I will also mention one kind
of horrible thing about
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cochlear implants.
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If a person loses a sight, any
sight, at a young age, and
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then they--
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CHLOE: Sense.
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MONICA: Any, sorry,
you're right.
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It's been a long day.
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If you lose any sense at a young
age, thanks Chloe, and
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then you go years and years
without using that sense,
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whether it's hearing, whether
it's sight, whatever, your
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brain actually changes
and adapts.
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And your brain reassigns
different portions of your
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brain to other sensors.
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So if you are to get a cochlear
implant put in after
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years and years of being deaf,
your brain will kind of blank.
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And many people who have this
done experience a profound
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depression.
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And they experience a lot of
mental confusion and upset.
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It's the same with people who
have been blind for many years
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and suddenly can have their
sight restored.
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If you are further interested in
the topic, there's a great
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book by Oliver Sacks.
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He's a neurologist, and he
addresses this topic.
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But people think it's
a cool thing.
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They're like, oh you could get
your sight back after years of
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being blind.
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You could get your hearing
back after
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years of being deaf.
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In reality, sometimes these
cases end with people
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committing suicide because their
brains literally cannot
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cope with new information that's
being handed to them.
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So, as Booger says, it's a
really sensitive topic.
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And it's everybody's
personal choice.
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DYLAN: I'm sorry to interrupt.
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I'm not sure if anybody
was speaking.
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I have no way of telling if
somebody was speaking or not.
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One person asked a question
earlier here.
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Renzo asked me a question,
if I were to
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get a cochlear implant.
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Well, my particular hearing
disability is nerve damage in
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the center of my brain.
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I would not benefit from
a cochlear implant.
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Even if I did, I would
choose not to because
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it's not of my culture.
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Maddy James says I suppose you
can feel music when you hear
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deep sub baselines.
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Great question about
music and deaf.
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I can feel almost everything.
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Treble clef I can't
really understand.
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But baritone, I love bass.
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Anything with bass or
drumming, I love it.
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I can feel music up to
a certain point.
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Like when I play guitar I can
feel what I'm strumming.
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When I play piano I can
feel the notes up
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to a certain point.
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And drums is kind of
self-explanatory.
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I can feel what I'm
banging on.
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So if that makes sense, music
has never really left me.
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I can remember what
music sounds like.
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So, when somebody is playing
I watch how they perform.
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And I look at the
fluid motion.
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If somebody has lots of fluid
motion in their music that's
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good music.
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OK, Craig has a question.
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Would you support an option to
include a chat on air for both
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[UNINTELLIGIBLE]
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and the recording?
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Well, I am unaware if the chat
gets on live recording or not.
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So I don't know.
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But it would be really nice if
there was a way to have a
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split screen where a zoomed
in area where people can
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see the live chat.
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And then have the video
on the side.
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I don't know.
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I have not seen this yet.
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So that's about the best
answer I can give you.
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I think that's pretty much
all I can give you
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guys for this session.
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I can take some questions
for now.
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But I'm actually kind
of exhausted.
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Speaking is not really
my forte.
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Signing is.
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MONICA: Thank you, Dylan.
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DYLAN: Thank you everybody.
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MONICA: Thank you very much.
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CRAIG: So, Monica, when you stop
the recording does that
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kill the Hangout?
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MONICA: Yes, and it will
basically kick me out too.
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So thank you everybody.
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Thank you Dylan.
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CHLOE: Thank you Dylan.
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Now I have a bigger
vocabulary.
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I can say, like, where
is the bathroom?
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And thank you.
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CRAIG: I really hope some of us
can get behind the option
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to include the chat because this
is another example of why
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it's so important that
we have that option.
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MALE SPEAKER 2: Craig, there
is a way I just found out.
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I did copy and paste
of the whole chat.
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And if you have a Blogger blog
and you copy and paste that
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into the Blogger blog it will
show all the chat with the
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different people's posts.
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CRAIG: But it's not
in the recording.
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It's not included in
the recording then.
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And the people watching the
live chat, it's still very
-
awkward for them to watch the
show and try to monitor chat
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somewhere else, right?
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So we should just have an option
to just include it in
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the live stream.
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And include in the recording.
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They could append it
to the recording.
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They know the time when
it's happening.
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And they can match it up.
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MONICA: There should be.
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And I'm going to tag a bunch of
Google people on this and
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say let's figure out a way
to put the chat in there.
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CRAIG: I mean, all we need
is the option to do it.
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I can understand the privacy
thing where it's off the
-
record and all that.
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But if everybody agrees to it,
if you set up a Hangout and
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you have a little check box that
says this is going to be
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included in the show.
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And everybody agrees when they
come in, just like they agree
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that it's on air in the first
place, then there
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shouldn't be a problem.
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MONICA: Craig, I don't think
it's an issue of what they
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feel would be a violation
of copyright.
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I think it's just they don't
know it's a wanted feature.
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CRAIG: Well, what they've told
me is the chat is designed to
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be off the record.
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And that they don't want
it to be included.
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Well, that's great.
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But in some cases, in some
shows, it's pretty important
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that it be included.
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Tonight was a perfect example.
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It's an integral part
of the show.
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MONICA: Well, that's true.
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And it's also one of these
aspects of existing in a
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different--
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needing different facilities.
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So maybe we can request that
and say, hey, it's one of
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those needed features.
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And I, too, am very tired.
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I'm sorry about my low
level of energy.
-
I'm normally more-- it's
been a long day.
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CRAIG: Well, thank you very
much, Monica, for
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putting this together.
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This was very informative.
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MONICA: Hey, you guys have
to really thank Dylan.
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And also Chloe.
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And thank you to Daniel for
translating earlier.
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And I should be typing all this
but like, my brain can't
-
work three ways at
once tonight.
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CHLOE: It's OK.
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MONICA: So, and yeah, and thanks
to anybody from Google
-
who's watching and willing to
consider adding that chat
-
capability, or modifying it
at all for deaf users.
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Because that would be
A++, more like G++.
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CRAIG: And there are
other shows too.
-
Even in the non-deaf
community--
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DYLAN: Sorry to interrupt.
-
I wanted to say one
last thing.
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I am manager of Universal
Subtitles.
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It's now called Amara,
by the way.
-
I do lots of subtitling
of videos.
-
And lately I have a team page
for music captioning.
-
So I actually have
a bunch of music
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videos that are captioned.
-
I encourage the public
to caption this kind
-
of stuff for music.
-
Feel free to upload.
-
I have a web address
right now.
-
Give me a second.
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I'll post it.
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MONICA: OK, I'll be putting
the link on the
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post, by the way.
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CRAIG: And also read that out so
that it's part of the show.
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DYLAN: For music captioning,
it's free for the public.
-
And it's a project I'm doing
to try to bridge the gap
-
between hearing and
deaf world.
-
I have access to all subtitles
of everything on the internet.
-
What I would like to encourage,
Monica, is to have
-
this video captioned using
our tools at Amara.
-
I would like to promote that.
-
So it would be fun, rather
than using YouTube's
-
captioning.
-
So if that would be cool.
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MONICA: OK, so you heard
it from Dylan.
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Use this link.
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I put it on the post.
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CRAIG: So it's universalsubtitl
-
es.org/en/teams/
musiccaptioning.
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MONICA: All right, so thank you
everybody for watching.
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And have a good night.
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CHLOE: You too Monica.
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CRAIG: Thanks again everyone.
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MONICA: By everybody.
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Goodnight.
