Idioms Thursday!

Wow touchy screen - it published before I typed anything!

I guess you can call that an "itchy trigger finger?"

(idiomatic) a tendency to act in haste or without consideration
Given any remote chance to gun down an effective spokesman for conservative economics as a secret fascist and torturer, even Nobel laureates can, we see, succumb to an itchy trigger finger.

The sign I prefer for this is in itself idiomatic - I don't know I have ever seen it on line. Forefingersclose to the face (like in "famous")then circling in alternating movements to palm in as the hands move away from the face. I'll try and get a video up when I sort out my website problems.

Anyway,I might also translate it as "without thinking".

If you find a video of the sign on line, let me know.
Thanks!

Links Tuesday!

Today I would like to highlight "Ear of my Heart". The host of this site is LaRonda Zupp from Northern California.

Let me let her tell you:

The title of my blog comes from the opening verse of St. Benedict’s prologue, which tells us to ‘listen carefully and attend with the ear of our hearts.’ St. Benedict was a saint who urged us to listen within the depths of our soul, keeping ourselves attentive to wisdom that comes from the voice within, and inclining our hearts toward deeper understanding.


My blog title is not about “ears” or “hearing” or being able to “hear clearly,” the way hearing people can hear sound. It is about listening with PURE LOVING ATTENTION to what people are really communicating. This is what it means to me to listen and blog with ‘the ear of my heart.’

I hope you stop by. She has a lot worth listening to.

A Little Deaf History.

But first, here is the acknowledgment that this week marked the passing of three entertainment icons: Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. May their families have peace in their losses.


Now for a peace of Deaf History:

Juan Pablo Bonet worked for the High Constable fo Castille. The High Constable's brother was deaf, leading Bonet to develop a system of visible signs, including a manual alphabet.

Read more at the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Idioms Thursday

When my schedule goes through constant changes I find having a little structure helps me out. So, in this summer of adjustments, I have decided I will try:

Links Tuesday
Idioms Thursday and
History Friday.

I hope you enjoy.

Now, onto today's idiom (or idioms. Sometimes there are several that are relate you know).

The Whole Shebang (informal)
the whole of something, including everything that is connected with it.
The party's next week but my parents are organizing the whole shebang.

Whole Shebang (spoken)
all of something, including everything connected with it.
The Whole Nine Yards
We've got offices all over the world, and we're tying the whole shebang together with a high-speed computer network.

I would sign these "Include" with emphasis showing the enormity of "all".

Links Monday on Tuesday

It was one of those days yesterday - and looks like mondays may be like that for a few weeks - so Links Monday is going to move to Tuesday. It makes my life easier and I am sure you lot won't mind. Wednesdays will look a lot like Mondays, so expect this blog on ly about 3 days a week for the rest of the summer.

Anyway, today's link that I think everyone should wander by is OIC Movies. If you are not a member, you should be. There are public service announcements, news from around the world, How-to videos, money tips, health tips, money and technology and of course my favorites - entertainment videos.

It is a great site for deaf and interpreters alike and I hope you consider supporting them.

Have a great week!

Summer workshops

Take the time to go by ohsoez.com and click on the interpreters link. They have an entire list of workshops going on this summer. Surely one fits your schedule?


I look forward to the Annual Spring Sign Language and Interpreting celebration. Is it terribly wrong of me to say the biggest draw is being across the street from Disneyland?


And its the weekend closest to my birthday - how can I go wrong?

Hope to see you there!

Obama Name Signs

Since yesterday I opened this can of worms, I thought I would continue it.

Here is another option - based on the sign for President.

And yet another, picked up from a school and I believe based on the sign for "future"

This vlogger brings up three, the one from yesterday, one based on president above and this one, based on "change".

I find it interesting - some deaf are responding to comments that Name Signs are the way people are identified in the deaf world. Others are admitting they are still spelling his name - it's only five letters long after all.

I fear my teacher was of that latter opinion - I believe she would have added "get over it."

So what do you think - or better yet, what are you seeing? We're mostly seeing the one based on the logo (yesterday's vlog citation) or spelled around my neck of the woods...