Interesting article using the ASL signer for Mayor Bloomberg's pre-Sandy speech to explain how facial expressions and bodily movements are part of ASL grammar.
That was Olympic-level signing she was doing. It was a long press conference with a lot of data and Bloomburg barely taking a breath, which she had to listen to and translate live. My roommate and I were really impressed by her.
Real-time translators always blow my mind. I can't even listen to someone and take notes--how difficult it must be to be able to listen to one language and say it in another at virtually the same instant!
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