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2004-03-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-03-24 6:39:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]

Posted by TROLL 2004-3-24 6:52:53 AM|| 2004-3-24 6:52:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 So I guess the sign for bullshit has yet to be reviewed? Approximately, it is both arms across your chest, one above the other, and using the index and middle fingers of the lower hand wave downward. Maybe you make horns with the same fingers of upper hand - I can't remember. Try it and you'll get it. Can't find a graphic for it anymore, sorry!

Posted by .com 2004-3-24 7:24:10 AM|| 2004-3-24 7:24:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't have a problem with this move. The gestures seem a bit offensive to me. So why not create more polites one and leave the old ones to represent the term being used as a slur? Language evolves....as I see this, they are just adding a few, more refined words to the dictionary.

Posted by B 2004-3-24 8:22:17 AM|| 2004-3-24 8:22:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 We sometimes have a Signlanguage interpreter at my Synagogue. I cant believe she would have ever used the "hooknose" sign for Jew. Theres an active Jewish hearing impaired community IIUC. Why shouldnt sign language evolve like any other language?

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-24 9:51:28 AM|| 2004-3-24 9:51:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Shipman <------------ Points to nose.
Shipman <------------ Points to leg.
Shipman <------------ Moves one leg up slightly.
Shipman <------------ Points to picture of P.T. Barnum

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-24 9:58:35 AM|| 2004-3-24 9:58:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The only word i know in sign-laguage is blowjob, and the last deaf person I signed it to laughed her a** of ( wich realy was to bad, it was a good-looking female )

Posted by Evert Visser in NL 2004-3-24 12:06:22 PM|| [http://chinditz.buzznet.com/user/] 2004-3-24 12:06:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Color me naive, but this is all news to me. I'd probably laugh my ass off if I saw these little pictographs, or whatever they're called.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-03-24 2:08:15 PM|| 2004-03-24 2:08:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 This is _British_ sign language that the article is talking about, mind you. The sign for "German" or "Germany" in American Sign Language (and this sign has been in use for ever since I've known any ASL) could hardly be considered offensive by anyone; it's the hands placed together, backs facing out, and the fingers wiggling, to represent the wings of the German eagle. (The sign for "America" is the hands placed together with fingers interlaced and pointing outward, then moving around in a circle; this is supposed to represent traditional frontier-style fences.)

Posted by Joe 2004-03-24 6:09:01 PM|| 2004-03-24 6:09:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 . (The sign for "America" is the hands placed together with fingers interlaced and pointing outward, then moving around in a circle; this is supposed to represent traditional frontier-style fences.)

Damn! Way cool! That is America!

MARS BELONGS TO AMERICA, OPEN IT FOR HOMESTEADING.

Posted by Shipman 2004-03-24 7:16:58 PM|| 2004-03-24 7:16:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Does Ludicrus know about these signs? He is running out of ways to express himself offensively.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-03-24 11:16:25 PM|| 2004-03-24 11:16:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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