Friday, February 29, 2008

You are welcome to correct my English...



11 comments:

Judge said...

Sure, here are a suggestion for your subject.

You is welcome to corrects my English. (only one period) :)

Now, you is welcome to correct my English if I is wrong!

{laughs}

Deb Ann and Hannah said...

Judge is so silly!

Ooops, correcting my English:

jUdge are so Silly. !

David A. Martin said...

ASL Pride,

I love your great attitude about accepting constructive feedback. I double Love your attitude that your first language is 2h S-5-S. I feel exactly same as you.

Amen
David

ZERO said...

I had an interesting thought as I watched your vlog. I am a hearing interpreter and I think I have been corrected maybe three times in 15 years for my errors in ASL. Is it fair/right to correct your English if I don't experience the same?
The other thing. I just interpreted a dvd commentary that wasn't captioned. One of the people talking was from another country and was difficult to understand. They DID ad captioning for his part and the captioning was "perfect" English, not an exact reproduction of what he said. I thought it was neat to just respect people for being able to use more than one language - something I think Deaf people do much more than hearing - in my experience.

OCDAC said...

No matter how bad it looks, your English is as sweet as it can be.

Gary A. Fitts said...

I do make many errors on my blog, that because I didn't proofread them, or didn't use the spell checker. It's tough writing. Most stories I published had to be reedited at a later date, trying to make a fictional story realistic.
Smokey
Deaf Anthology

Anonymous said...

To David Martin

Needless to say.... I agree with all of comments but I would like to ask u an important question cuz u are ASL teacher.

Is it okay for deaf people to correct hearing people's ASL who are learning ASL?
Or just accepting their (hearing people) ASL which they sign incorrect?
That is why I have realized if I correct their ASL so they would feel down? It is the same parallel idea !

(sorry for my English)

:-)

Toby Welch said...

Your vlog is, are, was, were, has, had, beautiful comment! Tell me how to put right English order. Hmmm. I love your vlog about it. I agree with you. Thanks.

GalaxyAngelz said...

Sometimes, I have several mistake my English grammar because of structure by the way like everyone aren't perfect. As long everyone are try their best effort written English Grammar.

Depends If people doesn't understand you and do not hestile (sp) ask you again until understand instead lead into misunderstanding.

Your comment is quite impressive.

Unknown said...

Cool, it tells me you are pretty much open minded person. We all strive to perfect our English but always find errors, both hearing and Deaf. Can you please elaborate more about your educational background. Since ASL is your first language, were you ever taught how to bridge English using ASL to help you comprehend English? In other words, were you ever taught bilingually?

I just guess that people assumed that those who acquire ASL are not capable of writing correct grammar but it has a lot to do with how they are taught. Too often those who acquired ASL as a first language did not have the opportunity to learn in a bilingual environment. What do you think of that?

Aslpride said...

Thanks for comments; I appreciate it. :)

Lee: Deaf doesn't correct hearing, but ASL modifiers, coaches and instructors correct people who are learning the ASL.

I did mention about ASL modifiers in my vlog. http://aslpride.blogspot.com/2007/12/asl-modifiers.html

Barb Gigi: I always have problem with total-communicate and my teacher did keep telling me to stop using ASL when I was kid. I am sure my first language is ASL, but I wasn't exposing bilingual. I have been in a tug of war between ASL and total-communicate when I grew up. When I went to deaf institute in CSDR. That is where I got my freedom with ASL and improves my ASL. I did explain one of my vlog in past about synchronized between English and sign language that cause my English isn't great.

http://aslpride.blogspot.com/2007/06/deaf-students-are-disposal-to-deaf.html