LL-L "Language varieties" 2007.04.26 (01) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L  -  26 April 2007 - Volume 01

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From: Jonny Meibohm <altkehdinger at freenet.de>
Subject: LL-L 'Sign Language'

Beste Lowlanners, Sandy in special,

today I watched a short report about a BBC-project called See Hear
http://www.bbc.co.uk/seehear/ , which deals with TV-matters for deaf people.
The report I saw was made by the German radio- and TV-station 'Bayerischer
Rundfunk', which obviously has any similar project, because the director of
the film was deaf, too.

I could watch the communication between the German moderator and his British
guests (the director Terry Riley in special) which of course was completely
held in sign language, but for non-deaf spectators translated into normal
language and subtitled.

I was very surprised and impressed again about the speed of their talks.

I'd like to know: how is it possible for a deaf German to communicate so
fast with a deaf British man in sign language, which, as I presume, was the
British (BSL) version?

For me for example it would have been impossible to talk so fast in normal
English.

So, my question: had the German moderator to learn BSL up to any very high
level or is German sign language (DSL) very similar to BSL so there's a
basical degree of understanding each other?

Allerbest!

Jonny Meibohm

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