By the way, why don't we have interpreters (down in the bottom right corner) on T.V. here in America? I remember we used to in the 1980s on some shows. I don't see this anywhere on T.V. now. It would be nice to have this.
Here is a video posted by Katie1234x. You can hear a woman laugh hysterically in the background. It is not funny at all. It is really boring to watch. But it is so interesting that this woman found this to be hilarious.
There are some videos where the interpreters are really into it while interpreting a music video. I can understand why those kinds of interpretations can seem funny.
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It reminds me of those videos where people add made-up subtitles to "foreign language" clips. Like this one:
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English-only speakers find them hilarious, while bilingual people know what's being said on both ends and aren't able to really be all that amused.
Coincidentally I overheard a comment about someone's funny facial expressions in my ASL class after I read this blog. It was a comment that I probably wouldn't pay attention to any other time. It made me more aware that we note hilarity on a regular basis.
This reminds me of my ASL classes. I took 2 years of ASL at a community college while I was in high school. Most of the other people in the class were hearing adults. It would always take a few weeks of class before they could stop giggling at the expressions of the teacher and concentrate on what was being said. I can understand why it makes people giggle, but luckily it's easy enough to get used to :)
ReplyDeleteJJ--I actually got a good laugh out of the Hitler video. It's poking fun only at Hitler, who was known to have regular temper tantrums. No one is laughing at the German people. In fact the movie Downfall depicted how the Germans were victims of Hitler's inability to grasp reality.
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Hey!! I've seen her on tv many times, she does all sort of tv programmes over her in the UK!
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Did anything she said make sense? Am I the only one who did not understand anything except that she said "think" a lot?
ReplyDeleteI believe it was in BSL (British Sign Language). If you know ASL maybe that's why it doesn't seem to make sense to you.
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