#british sign language

[x-brik-x]

british sign language for unity

#diy punk #battle jacket #patch jacket #patch vest #punk patches #anarcho punk #battle vest #deaf #hard of hearing #unity #solidarity #BSL #british sign language #d/hoh #dhoh #deaf community

[jayciethings]

Are there accents in sign language? Like, within ASL or BSL, can you spot which deaf community an individual is from based on how far they tilt their hands in a movement, or some other seemingly subtle (or maybe big?) differences? Do families sign exactly the same way, in the same way hearing families often have extremely similar voices?

I imagine there's lots of ways to convey certain tones? I'm picturing maybe positioning your hands a certain way to convey that something you're signing is sarcastic, the same way hearing people change tone.

Do different generations have different slang? Like, do millennials and gen z have totally different ways of saying the same thing? Do deaf millennials have some equivalent of "doggo" which deaf gen z's roll their eyes at?

Do people create new signs all the time the same way slang in the hearing world is constantly evolving?

I'm really sorry if these questions are ignorant as hell.

I'm so intrigued and excited to learn more about a world I know very little about. I feel like there will be so many layers and intricacies I'm totally unaware of.

Please forgive any ignorance I'm showing 🌻

#sign language #american sign language #british sign language #deafculture #deaf community #deafpride

[hedghost]

last night the lionesses wore warm up tops with the BSL fingerspelling of their names on them, as a celebration of british sign language and the deaf community!! lovely sight 👏👏

#engwnt #lionesses #bsl #british sign language #rachel daly #hannah hampton #alessia russo #ella toone #mary earps #leah williamson #lucy bronze #millie turner #georgia stanway #chloe kelly

[forestshadow-wolf]

I like when people make roach use BSL idk it just feels special to me. Like realistically that would not fly in the military, but this is my delusion and I say he gets to

#gary roach sanderson #roach call of duty #roach cod #roach #gary sanderson #british sign language #call of duty #cod #cod mw2 #el rambles

[fruitviking]

I just learned that it's Sign Language Week (18th - 24th March)!

Here are some resources if you would like to learn some BSL basics:

British Sign https://www.british-sign.co.uk/

Sign BSL https://www.signbsl.com

Spread The Sign https://spreadthesign.com/en.gb/search/

Feel free to reblog with resources for learning your own national sign language!

#sign language week #british sign language #bsl #bsl resources #sign bsl #spread the sign

[starlightshadowsworld]

Happy Disability Pride month and a big ol fuck you to Alexander Graham Bell.

Who despite having a deaf mother who he communicated with via tapping certain things to.

And thus having an understanding that she needed something other than verbal communication to understand things.

.... Saw deaf people as "a defective race".

He wanted deaf people eradicated and at his school for the deaf, he banned the use of sign language.

Yeah he saw sign language as a foreign language.

And as he was also a racist and very against immigration, he went all "we're in America and in America we speak English and only English."

So glad thats not a thing anymore...

His answer to this was that deaf people should be unable to marry other deaf people.

Lest they produce more deaf children a which he saw as a "great calamity that could ruin humanity."

Well jokes on him because 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents.

And if you think he kept those opinions to himself... Nope.

Encouraged by him, in 1880, the Second International Congress on the Education of the Deaf was held.

164 delagates were in attendence, only one of which was deaf.

And they voted to banned sign language in schools.

As an "effort to encourage spoken language skills, and thus restore the Deaf-mute to society."

... By actively taking away what for many was the only way they could communicate in society.

People who had their own community that he wanted destroyed.

But the deaf community is still thriving.

Decades of campaigning resulted in British Sign Language bring recognised by the UK Parliament and passing the BSL Act.

... In 2022.

Yes it was technically recognised in 2003, and was legally recognised in 2015 in Scotland.

But not over all of the UK and did not have the same protections and recognition as it does now.

As of the passing of that bill, there were around 90,000 deaf people in the UK that have BSL as their first or preferred language.

Which I'm sure Alexander Graham Bell was rolling in his grave at hearing.

Also, he is credited as the inventor of the telephone but he may not actually have invented it.

So yeah Happy Disability Pride month and maybe learn some sign language.

#Bsl #british sign language #alexander graham bell #tw eugenics #Deaf #deaf community #Hard of hearing #disability pride #disability pride month

[girlboy-frankensteins-monster]

this is a petition to add british sign language to the uk national curriculum. if you could sign (uk residents only) or reblog that would be really helpful :)

#bsl #british sign language #deaf #sign language #deafawareness #petition #uk politics #uk #disabled #also just to clarify this isn't my petition i'm just sharing it #mine #edit: fixed a typo that i hadn't noticed up until now somehow so sorry about that

[kiwilittle]

Leaning bsl

#pikmin #pikmin 2 #pikmin 3 #pikmin 4 #louie #louie pikmin #bree #bree pikmin #pikmin oc #oc #bsl #british sign language

[unclepolyglot]

Writing Signed Languages in Fanfics

so i recently got into learning ASL (which is amazing!! i love it so much!!) and am planning to reference it when writing a Legend of Zelda fanfic, like certain facial expressions or how quickly/forcefully a sign is made, etc.

the thing is, since i'm hearing, i'm wondering if those of you who are d/Deaf or HoH can give me some tips on how to write a signing character, like things you wish you'd see in fanfics, or things you wish writers would stop doing.

also, to show that the MC is communicating in another language other than English, i'm thinking of using these Japanese 「quotation brackets」. thoughts?

#american sign language #asl #sign language #bsl #auslan #british sign language #Australian sign language #deaf culture #actually deaf #actually hoh #<- plz lmk if i should remove the last tags--i just want this to be seen #as an audhd person i'm fine with ppl using the audhd tags to get our attention but idk if y'all are cool w that so plz kindly lmk if not! #reyna's ramblings

[like-this-post-if-you]

Like this post if you speak a Sign Language

#sign language #asl #american sign language #bsl #british sign language #african sign laguage #libras #lsb #brazillian sign language #lsm #mexican sign language #lsf #french sign language #rsl #russian sign language #langblr #likes

[defectivegembrain]

No but like people assume that if you lose speech sign language is automatically a good solution and idk if maybe different sign languages vary on this but I took a bsl class years ago and I sucked at it, like yeah finger shapes are fine but there's spatial dimensions to it and you have to make facial expressions for a lot of stuff to make sense and it feels so intense to do and process and it's kinda the opposite of how my brain works

#disability #autism #british sign language

[thedeafzoologist]

Things I love about being Deaf

The community! I've met so many lovely people in the Deaf community, and I can't express how important it was for me to meet other deaf individuals

The language. I am learning BSL, and it is something that I would reccomend to anyone, not just deaf people. Have you ever needed to communicate across a noisy room? It's so helpful and it blows my mind that sign language isn't usually taught in schools

My hearing aids. I am lucky enough to live in a country where hearing aids are free, and I know that a lot of people do not have access to them like I do. That said, it warms my heart to see people with hearing aid accessories, brightly coloured aids, etc. Mine are bright blue, and I love showing them off!

The ability to mute people. Noisy environment? People being unkind? Switch the hearing aids off and BAM! No sound, no problem.

I am now legally required to say DEAFinitely instead of definitely for the rest of my life.

#deaf #deafawareness #deaf awareness #deafpride #deaf pride #BSL #british sign language #hearing aids #deaf positivity

[tuttle-did-it]

Why is there a BSL sign for a random, absurd word like this when there’s not an official way to say ‘non-binary’ or ‘they/them’ or even the word ‘pronoun’?

BSL, get with it. I can’t even identify myself in this language. There isn’t even a gender-neutral way to say ‘sibling’ or ‘parent.’

Frankly, I’m not enjoying learning BSL and I’m a little bitter that I have to because I’m deaf and need to talk to other humans. This language is absurd.

#bsl #British sign language #pronouns #sign language #BSL is stuck in the 19th century and I’m tired of it #frankly I’m annoyed at bsl most of the time #because it’s just so hard to use #deaf people problems #deaf #hoh #hard of hearing

[a-rand0m-bl0g]

Does Stanley do ASL or BSL?

#the stanley parable #tsp stanley #american sign language #british sign language

[bodhrancomedy]

I just wish Hearing and neurotypical people tried listening to the groups they’re trying to “help” before they do this. Ironically, Hearing people are the worst listeners I’ve ever come across.

#deaf #tiktok #video #queer #british sign language #bsl #sign language gloves

[shakespearenews]

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #actors #acting #bsl #british sign language #sign #signing #Rose Ayling-Ellis #Deaf #deaf #sign language #creative sign #as you like it #signsforchange #subtitles #Youtube