Nortel [WAS Re: "Aceent" & Nortel

[Michael Hamm]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 at 10:02:37 GMT, Bencie Woll <b.woll at CITY.AC.UK> wrote
to SLLING-L, in part:
> It's also somewhat striking that the initial comments about the
> advert seemed to represent a reflexive view that if the signing
> didn't look like ASL, it was somehow 'wrong'. I think if hearing
> people saw an advert in which people were speaking something
> unintelligible, the assumption would be that they were using a
> foreign spoken language, not that they were speaking 'wrong' English.
> One often sees adverts on TV that want to stress their
> internationalism (such as McDonalds) where people are shown speaking
> foreign languages.

On a somewhat related note, I recently saw an Oreo advertisement conducted
wholly in ASL (with English subtitles for at least part of it).

Michael Hamm
BA, Math, Sept. '00
msh210 at nyu.edu
http://www.crosswinds.net/~msh210/