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Skriven 2013-06-17 12:29:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Re: hands  was: Lights ou
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 06-15-13  06:35 <=-

 DD>> plenty of room. And zoom past at the first opportunity. Then there are
 DD>> the hand wavers. Some of those remind me of the old "joke" -  "His
 DD>> hands were tied so he had a lot of trouble talking."
 NB>> Around here, in NTID country, we have a lot of people who talk in
 NB>> sign... Seeing it in a restaurant isn't too bad, but seeing it happen
 NB>> in the car next to you is a bit more disconcerting, especially when
 NB>> it's the driver signing, and the car is moving right along...  ;0

 DD> Just as curiosity what is "NTID"? I am assuming that the "D" is for
 DD> deaf. As ISD is Illinois School for the Deaf - located nearby to me.

National Technical Institute for the Deaf... an adjunct to RIT (Roch.
Inst. of Tech.), which was added in the late 60's with RIT's move to the
Henrietta campus from downtown...  We also have a well established RSD
for pre-collegiate...

 DD> But, I wasn't talking about deaf people communicating. I was
 DD> referencing people, typically of Mediterranean heritage who are both
 DD> physical and voluble - giving real meaning to "body language."

I understood that.  :)  A driver signing with two hands, though, is
along the same lines, but sometimes more-ish... also often looking over
the shoulder to the other signers in the back seat...  ;)

ttyl         neb

... Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian.

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