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<P>I believe people made fun of President Carter for having an accent too. It never stops.</P>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>"Valerie Sutton" <sutton@signwriting.org></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</I><BR>To: <I>sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</I><BR>Subject: <I>[sw-l] writing switching dominant and non-dominant hands</I><BR>Date: <I>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:51:09 -0800</I><BR>>SignWriting List<BR>>January 24, 2007<BR>><BR>>>Andre wrote:<BR>>>You use the left strong (active) hand in your story. Look at the <BR>>>third column (AGAIN): You use the right strong (active) hand and <BR>>>the left weak (passive) hand. You are supposed to use the left <BR>>>strong (active) hand and the right weak (passive) hand. If the <BR>>>signer uses alternative hands, the Deaf community does not
like <BR>>>them and the signer could be criticized. For example: President <BR>>>King Jordan ofGallaudet University used the two alternative hands <BR>>>which bothered the Deaf community because it was confusing or <BR>>>uncomfortable to the eyelistener.<BR>><BR>><BR>>That is interesting about the complaint about President King <BR>>Jordan's signing...it may be that people truly skilled in ASL <BR>>noticed that President Jordan was not native to signing and so his <BR>>"accent" was slightly annoying...He learned to sign later in life <BR>>and it was his second language...<BR>><BR>>We had the opposite experience, relating to an ambidextrous signer <BR>>years ago...(ambidextrous signers are people who are both left
and <BR>>right handed, and who sometimes mix the dominant hands)...<BR>><BR>>One of our DAC members years ago was an ambidextrous signer, born <BR>>into a three-generations Deaf family, and no one seemed to criticise <BR>> his switching dominant hands because he was such a skilled <BR>>signer...smile...I remember asking people about it and they hadn't <BR>>even noticed he did it, but I did because I was writing what he <BR>>said ;-))<BR>><BR>>That is an interesting issue...<BR>><BR>>Val ;-)<BR>><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div><br clear=all><hr> <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMAENUS/2755??PS=47575" target="_top">Check out all that glitters with the MSN Entertainment Guide to the Academy Awards® </a> </html>