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now i may not know anything about computing, cybercrime, malware, software, hardware, ransomware, DOS, DNS, phishing, keylogging, backdooring, fragging, defragging, hacking, or fracking, but…. i think we should let the morris worm out. she didn’t do anything wrong 

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OH SHIT NEW RWBY TOMORROW GUESS WHO'S GONNA BE ANNOYING

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love on earth

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Ritualwell.org: Shema in ASL by Rabbi Darby Jared Leigh

I currently have trouble speaking due to jaw pain. I am mostly just saying prayers mentally but I am also working on learning the most common ones in ASL. Signing prayers feels much more deliberate and grounded to me than just saying them in my head.

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It’s okay to be a beginner at the things you are interested in. There is no reason to feel intimidated by people more advanced than you are, because they too were in your place at one point. Keep learning and growing and expanding in whatever it is that you love and let nothing and no one stop you. You don’t have to be at the same stage as someone else. You can just be at your stage and that one is okay too.

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Hi! I took asl in college and the teacher had us translate a song into asl as a project, I've continued to do that as a way to increase vocabulary and practice during quarantine. I was wondering if, as a hearing person, it would be ok to post these online or not?

Hello,

oh, translating songs. This is very controversial area when it comes to sign language learning.

If you want to share it with your classmates or get feedback on your signing, I suppose you can. But I would advise against posting it online if you just want to show the world how you translated these songs.

Not that translating songs is wrong, but... I am kinda side-eyeing your teacher here. Unless you were in a very advanced class (like, already interpreting advanced), I don’t think its a good exercise. Translating songs is notoriously difficult, requires a good knowledge of sign language grammar, but also a certain “feel” for rhythm. Not even all professional interpreters do it. 

I know lot of hearing students of sign language loves translating songs, but majority of results I have seen online are... bad. That’s because its hard following the grammar/word order of sign language. Lot of these translated songs are basically signs in English word order (or whatever is the spoken language used in the song.)

Which, by itself, wouldn’t be that much of a problem. We all have to learn. Its a problem when all these bad translations are shared by other hearing people without context, used as learning tools or presented as a good representations of sign language. 

And there is another angle - it happened several times that authors of these translations gained popularity and it left bitter taste in the mouth of deaf people. Its hard to put into words, but its like... too often, deaf people are and were punished and opressed for usage of their own languages. So seeing a hearing person who doesn’t even use it properly get spotlight/money/fame for it, it grates.

I am not saying its offensive to post translation videos, but just think about it before you post it and consider what do you want to get out of it. And if you really feel the need to post it, make sure to note you are still a student and that this is not accurate/fluent representation of ASL.

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*sits quietly next to my grieving inner child in silence, without expectation of an explanation or righteous purpose behind it all*

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Reblog if it’s 100% fine to pop up and message you. Let’s go people, let’s make new friends 👏🏳️‍🌈

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Sometimes I just want to pack a backpack, bring a tent, and start a campfire where no one will find me. Just me, a half dead phone with no service, a couple books, and whatever food I decide to pack.

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me, as a closeted teenager: I probably won’t find love

me, at 24, in my underwear, watching my boyfriend ignore the main storyline in Breath of the Wild to blow things up and pick mushrooms for an absurd amount of time:

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what about some sun conures!

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imagine if the oceans were replaced by forests and if you went into the forest the trees would get taller the deeper you went and there’d be thousands of undiscovered species and you could effectively walk across the ocean but the deeper you went, the darker it would be and the animals would get progressively scarier and more dangerous and instead of whales there’d be giant deer and just wow

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if you're reading this, it's a sign that everything is going to be alright.

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Giving him cheek kisses as he cooks (I'm assigned rice duty or something and end up burning a pot to ashes).