Sign Language

[Moon_man]

Hey, I'm new to the whole Speech thing, (SOOO Great!! Wish I had found it before my junior year tough )

Anyway, I have a dilemma.
I'm and going into my second local tounament next week, doing this HI peice called "Santaland Diaries" by David Sedaris, about working as a Macy's elf, and at one point he uses sign language when talking to deaf children ("Sorry, but Santa has a tumor in his head the size of an olive") Great line, but only one problem: I don't know sign language...

So what should I do? Try to fake it or cut it? Would it be offensive to make up sign language?

[flyingkai]

Hey Babe!
I think it would rock if you learned how to sign it-I know a couple of kids at school who know sign language who might be able to show you.

call meh,
kai

[Pulp Fictionist]

Well...

This year for Duo, I am doing Wish Fulfillment. If you don't know this piece, it is unique in that the whole selection is the same scene repeated of a son revealing his homosexuality to his father, but with drastically various results. Anyway, we came up with the idea of doing a scene all in sign language and when he breaks the big line, I go "what?" in a humorous way. We love it, and everyone else so far has too. Try it out, we actually learned it, there's a website that is very beneficial for those attempting to learn.

[jman255]

If you did some fake sign language mixed with some real sign language (and made it obvious, of coruse), I think that would do best.

[Moon_man]

there's a website that is very beneficial for those attempting to learn.

Where?

[Pulp Fictionist]

aaaaa, sorry dude, I really don't remember...I searched Google but didn't see the one we used...try checking some random links though, but the one we used had videos and **** to help teach words, vivid descriptions, etc.

[theatrix04]

http://www.signlanguage.org/

http://ask.yahoo.com/19990330.html

http://www.british-sign.co.uk/

http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/

http://www.surfnetkids.com/related.p...gnlanguage.htm

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/dicthc.html#sign

some good sites to help learn sign language...

Good Luck

[Cinderella]

Oh theatrix, someone should give you a medal or something. You do so much research for people you don't even know when you could be like "look up websites with sign language."

[AfRiCaNHI]

If you did some fake sign language mixed with some real sign language (and made it obvious, of coruse), I think that would do best.

Yes. There it is. The Gospel according to Joe M.

[Moon_man]

Thanks for all the help! The sites are great, so I am totally going to do it.

I even found how to say "tumor".

Thanks SO MUCH!!