Paotie’s Pink Boa
Denver – Good evening, everybody! I hope you had a great and safe weekend protesting and boycotting. In fact, I hope some of you at least got fortunate, if you know what I mean. Well, as always, I love a good protest because there’s always a hot, blonde chick somewhere! And the best way to get a hot, blonde and Deaf chick is to go to Deaf protests!
I LOVE DEMOCRACY!
In fact, I have a secret confession to make: I secretly think a certain “Deaf expert” is quite hot! WOW! When I first saw her vlog, I thought, “WOW! What a babe!”
GO NAD! GO NAD!
HaHa! I’m just messin’ with all ya’ll. Can you dig it, ya’know what I’m sayin’?
Anyway, what I really wanted to talk about today is my friend. She has outstanding English and ASL! And I know she knows I am quite sexy and sing wonderfully because she’s also Deaf-Blind, too!
Nothing sexier than a woman who signs sexily in ASL and has great English skills! I happen to think my friend is so smart, too and I am blown away by her expertise and ability to make her points perfectly clear to stupidly angry commentators asking stupidly stupid questions at her blog! Outstanding!
Patty is one of my new online friends. She is smart, articulate and sexy! She still owes me the damn pink boa she stole from me last week! And only for her, will I let her keep Paotie’s Pink Boa.
The other really neat thing about Patty is that I love to read her Canadian-English, because this might come as a shock to some of you, but Patty’s English is slightly different than mine!
WOW! What a concept!
She realises that I realized that we use the same language differently for the same purposes! I think that is so cool because I LOVE English! It is more than just a phonetical language – it is also a visual language, too!
English adds many different colours to people’s lives and can sometimes help people understand why and how the world works. In fact, you might even remember a phrase that goes, “Paotie has rose-colored glasses on for that hot, blonde and Deaf chick in ‘tight’ jeans and a tight, pink and angora sweater!”
But, I have to apologize to those Deaf advocates who seem to feel that reading English is terrible because subtitles are audist. They are upset because the “voice” that people “hear” when they read is audist! It is against Deafhood!
Blasphemy!
And, in fact, the latest excuse to not provide subtitles in vlogs has nothing to do with anything other than the mere fact that subtitles might add “another” voice to a vlog, therefore, all vloggers should now demand and insist that “unbiased” captioning/subtitles are to be provided!
Outstanding forms of logic by Deaf “leaders!”
*laughs*
Really, people ..
Be good .. or be good at it.
Paotie
Aww..very cute felice!
Yeah, I’m amazed at Patty! She handled it all so articulately.
She’s lucky to have such a sweetheart like you in her corner, and she rightly deseves it too! For you to give her the pink boa is nothing but a chivalry that was long lost until you showed up!
What a lovely tribute to Patty! I enjoyed reading your play on the words and YES, English does give people a sense of freedom to play with words (look at how Shakespeare, Bryon, etc. played with English, mastering English instead of having English master them… )
Yes, I did notice that Patty had a talent with English… she dances on English. ;o)
Lovely.
Paotie!
You will have to let Patty to keep the pinky boa so that she can use her keepsake.
Com’n, Paotie!
Yeah, I know what she have gone through with all the deficit thinking relating to the subtitling issue. I love Patty, too. She’s our inspiration for using this kind of technology.
If not for the technology world, she would not have visited yours!
Sweetheart, Patty! ILY!
Hmmmm… I re-read what Paotie said about subtitling being seen as a kind of audist. Hmmm… I know that some Deaf people don’t feel comfortable with subtitling, saying (not directly) it “Englishizes” ASL and they don’t want that (does not fit the philosophy of Deafhood.) Well, remember what Mike McConnell said about reaching the wider audience and that there are many people who want to gain an understanding of how Deaf Culture ticks. I have seen foreign flims with subtitles and I know that I don’t get full access to the meanings of their cultures through English subtitles, but I APPRECIATE it anyway. Same goes for Patty… she APPRECIATES it that the vloggers take their time to subtitle their vlogs.
Also, I chuckled what Paotie said about biases and he points out the irony of demanding the “unbiased” subtitling the vlogs. True. Hypocrisy, as Mike said. At first, a loud “no” to subtitles, and then a muttering of “yeah”, to subtitles, and then demands for unbiased captioning… oooohhhh-kaaayyy.
Good writers describe strengths of opposing viewpoints and weaknesses of their own viewpoints. They also need to be considerate of their tone to be sure it matches their purpose for writing. Otherwise, they alienate their audience.
Karen –
That is what Carl Schroeder said about hiring the “closed captioning” typist to work for the campaign such as John McCain, Obama, Clinton, etc. He considered that the typist to work for the campaign as a “personal.”
He posted his blog yesterday, “captioning must be unbiased.” I strongly disagree with his views in his two blogs relating to the subtitling issue.
I want to make a point is that Gallaudet paid a typist to make the closed captioning for the graduation commencement. I consider the typist as a business, not the personal. It is the same as the interpretering business (Gallaudet Interpreting Service) as an instance.
For what Mike said in his recent vlog is true about the hypocrispy and hypocritical.
What Carl does not understand, obviously, is that these are personal vlogs and that those who sign and add subtitles are not diluting anything away from the signing itself. You can see that in Seek Geo’s vlogs. He knows what words to put down that expresses best with what he is saying in ASL, and not some interpeter who can do the paraphrasing for him doing the subtitles. Only those who are deemed as absolute “purists” (as opposed to “militant” which will get them into a writhing scream fest of “How dare you’s!!”) when it comes to ASL-only vlogs are doing exactly the same thing what hearing people have done when it comes to denying deaf/hh people their right to communication access. Irony of ironies. It just might eclipse the mother of all ironies about hearing babies learning ASL over deaf babies who don’t. And by doing so (no subtitles in ASL vlogs), effectively shuts out the Deaf-Blind, the new learners of ASL, the so-so users of ASL, the “what-the-heck-is-that?” crowd whose interest is piqued and the rest of the wider audience out there who just might stumble into something interesting and good.
I’m only talking about those who DO have the means and the know how to subtitle, and have good to excellent use of their English to do the job. They can…but won’t because they stand on their own principles of keeping their ASL vlogs….”pure”…in an act of outright discrimination and bias to all others out there who might be Deaf but need a little bit of help like Patty’s who is Deaf-Blind. And Carl pretty much screamed in her face by saying “NO!!” to her on providing subtitles for people like her. Isn’t he an ASL teacher, btw?
Now, I had to stiffle my laughter in my post script of my video over what Carl said when I said “I disagree” only because the hypocrisy was just oozing all over and it was begging to be questioned…and so I did.
Captioning is an act of liberation and not oppression.
“Good writers describe strengths of opposing viewpoints and weaknesses of their own viewpoints. They also need to be considerate of their tone to be sure it matches their purpose for writing. Otherwise, they alienate their audience.”
True.
Then again, if everybody wrote that way, then life would be absolutely boring, and word play would not be fun, and everything would always be black/white, on/off, hot/cold .. and nothing left to the imagination.
That would suck!
HaHa!
Paotie
REMINDER:
Good writers describe strengths of opposing viewpoints and weaknesses of their own viewpoints. They also need to be considerate of their tone to be sure it matches their purpose for writing. Otherwise, they alienate their audience.
What are the weaknesses of your viewpoint on the issue of CCing vlogs? I don’t see them.
How does your ongoing sarcasm help bring you closer to your audience?
You’ve just lost one of your readers. I wish you the best in your future endeavors!
Pamela, do you not see the number of people who have “joined” Paotie’s comment section over the last 3 or 4 months? There are those of us who do understand that satire is his way of communicating his thoughts as opposing viewpoints.
Look at Bill Maher, the comedian. His opposing viewpoints are absolutely dripping with sarcasm. He has a large audience. Though I don’t care about him but I do recognize that people express their thoughts differently and that they should really take complete offense over those.
correction:
“…and that they should NOT really take complete offense over those (who make sarcastic replies).”
BIG HUGS to you, Paotie!
Gosh, I’m feeling bashful here, heh! For this, I shall share the pink boa!!
I just did a vlog and my sweet DH helped subtitle it for me. I can really understand the time and effort into subtitling. Like McConnell says,
“Captioning is an act of liberation and not oppression.”
He’s quite correct about this. With captioning and subtitling, I am still involved with the vlogosphere.
Tactile smile with love,
Patty ox
YAY Patty!! I love Patty too!
Patty is easy to love because she exudes love. We should have a pink Patty party to celebrate our good luck that you found her!
*waves at Patty*
Gotcha, Mike. I *LOVE* Seek Geo, too.
FYI…..Carl Schoeder is a doctoral student and he used to have a dissertation in Hawaii. I don’t know if he is still a student since he moved to Oregon last year. I would not want to work for him, no thank you, Carl.
I am not sure Carl either obeys the ADA law or considers for others. Nevertheless, I do not think that he would want to deal with the late deafened people with no ASL, especially, the peers. Hummm…. :-/ pffft. *Rolling my eyes*
Captioning is an act of freedom, not the oppression. I agree.
I’m aware that some ASL doesn’t translate into English well, but it’s the effort that vloggers who put in the subtitles that is appreciated by those deaf who are learning ASL or need the subtitles because they miss some of the signs, like Patty. And likewise those deaf vloggers, like Mike, who speak as their preference and use subtitles because some d/Deaf don’t lipread well or understand spoken English, as their first language is ASL.
The vloggers who make this effort may never really know the impact of subtitling on a hearing audience. Who knows– public perception about deafness may change gradually when there is more exposure online to ASL with subtitles.
Hearing people may go, “Gee, deaf people can be rather intelligent and articulate about their deaf issues.”
Or, “Golly, this ASL is really a language, and not some kind of strange hand waving.”
Or, “These d/Deaf people are really the experts on deafness.” Amen to that.
I’m going to take the risk of “speaking” for the “others” because I CAN! It’s not so much the subtitles itself, it is the ideology behind it. In the very same way it has to do with being part of “hearies” or having anything to do with them. I find it all very bizzare to say the least. One would think these “other” deafies would be acceptable of subtiles because they themselves, benefit from it from watching T.V, DVD’s and so on…but, when the tables are turned, they protested. It’s all because they don’t want the “hearies” to be in the know about deaf vlogs. Also, Being deaf, to them, is to have NOTHING to do with anything that can connect them to the hearings. In the same way they want Deafread to be exclusively for those PURE ASL deafies. It’s no different than them being a total hypocrite when it comes to any deaf person that can speak, to them it is an abomination, yet they can be patronizing one min and hypocrite the next min.
I found myself in a weird situation and had to figure out WHY I even stooped that low! I swore I will never, ever do that again.
I had a business lunch meeting with another deaf person. Had never met that person before. We met, signed to each other. When time came for us to order, I was nervous about speaking because that is what I do all the time when ordering stuff. So, I gave him a lame excuse, telling him that I hadn’t decided yet. Well, lo and behold! This deaf person spoke!!! I was so relieved, and proceed to order my lunch verbally. He and I looked at each other and smiled…and went on with our business lunch.
So, from that day forward, I swore I will always speak as I always have regardless of who I’m with.
It’s hard to be oneself and to think for oneself in the Deaf world, isn’t it? It’s also hard to be oneself and to think for oneself in the hearing world, too. Catch-22.
Cute cat!
Creative writing in English should be fun!
I’m curious what’s the name of the font you’re using for header image/category title/page title? Is it freeware or shareware? Thanks!
That’s good, Candy. It’s about confidence in who you are whether you prefer to speak or sign.
I was on the vlog/blog conference at Gallaudet last year in February where I choose to speak using my voice in front of a Deaf audience and in front of a live camera connected to the internet backed up with real time captioners and 4 ASL interpreters for the audience. I just did it. Not a problem for me. I wasn’t worried about the consequences because what I did far outweighed anything negative that may came out of it. There were little negativity that resulted because of it because most people in the audience supported my decision to use my voice. But I’m pretty sure there were several in the audience that were simply shocked that I choose to speak. The vacant stares probably told the story on the few of them. The same thing probably happened with my vlogs, too. It’s about choice. Either you do it or you don’t.
Kim –
The three P’s, Pinky Patty Party. I am sure that Paotie will be very proud of the P’s! The pink sweater and pink boa. The P is everywhere right now.
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Mike, Ya I saw that. I was reviewing 2006 DR award videos and came across your presentation.
Hey Paotie,
Are you going be next to do on Vlog ????
Just wonder.
Davy
Davy ..
YUP, I’ll do a vlog one day.
Ain’t a priority for me, either – I prefer writing.
Paotie
ok oh I see. I kept on eye ya!
Davy
Yay!! A Paotie blog! I want to see Paotie blogging in PINK– with Patty! A Pink Paotie/Patty blog! Then we can have a Pink Paotie/Patty blog Party!! With Popcorn!!
C’mon Paotie…do a vlog!!!!!
yeah– Paotie is sooooooooooooosexy. I dreamed about paotie last night.
What a great way to start my day!!! Live for you and your sexy voice…no time to click now, will click later. Jodi
Hmmm… I’d like to point out one thing.
I have seen at how some people master English, instead of allowing English to master them. What I mean by this… the majority of us… hearies and deafies… work hard at knowing English, its syntax rules, etc. Once we reach the level of “everyday” English, we stop striving for it, we settle for the adequate (good enough) feeling and we nitpick on other people’s level of English. I acknowledge that I am mastered by English… I don’t know how to master English.
Look at Shakespeare, Bryon, Milton, William Saffire, etc. They play with the words, phonetics, etc. They bend and break the English syntax rules and yet at the same time the bend/broken English sounds or/and reads better in odd ways. Oh, yes, there are many good bloggers on DeafRead, like Carl, Barb Digi, etc… they follow the rules of English by the book perfectly. But they don’t master English. They are excellent at researching and presenting what they learn from research and experience. I don’t have their research expertise. That is fine. I do notice many commenters possessing great English writing skills also, and I often tell myself, shoot, that is exactly I wanted to comment but did not know how to bring it out of me.
Paotie, Mike, Patty and her brother (hikerinutah) Mr. Sandbox, to name a few.. they can bend English… thus they show the mastery over English and make them fun.
And I am sure their ASL expertise is as good as their writing. I have seen Mike’s ASL as he described ragtime piano hobby… he signs clear and fluid. Patty signs clear and beautifully, with confidence. etc.
Huh, no I don’t sign ASL clear and fluid, but that is OK.
)
Huh uh, I did not have any pink dreams last night… guess I am disqualified ;o)
I’m qualified! I am wearing my pink shirt and bikini right now! I am right here in the front of my laptop. *shrugging in my pink bikini* Yay!
Too bad, no vlogs! That’s tough. hee, hee, hee.
Dreaming? yeah, I admit I dreamed about the Pretty in Pink.
I think I just got pink eye from reading this….
ahem….
**groan**
I am convinced Paotie is sans girlfriend these days. All this sex talk, are you currently in your sexual prime as well?
Karen, I wouldn’t worry too much about mastering English– you so often get to the point in a succinct way with your English. Others, like me, get somewhat long-winded and take forever to get to the point.
There are times I could have said something with fewer words, and I’m trying to work on that.
Stacy, Paotie is a party animal! The more, the merrier! And one can always count on the Pinky Party.
Ha, ha… I just published my blog as Indiana Deaf Mother’s Babblings… over DeafRead… I think it is a bit long-winded one…
Ugh.
Oh, yeah I am sure Paotie is a party animal ;o)… I wonder if he has any plans for Valentine’s Day and I wonder who is the lucky lady?
;o)
Karen, yeah, just came across your blog and recognized your writing style. Isn’t it interesting how people can pick up on a writer’s style even without his/her signature??
Karen I think you’re a good writer. You too Ann.
I am not feeling at all sexy in this long blue and white hospital gown, and bandaids all over my arms. Hubby helped with a shower, washed my hair and shaved my legs last night thoguh. That was heavenly. At laest I am clean.
Kim, hubby shaved your legs too? Really? That was sweet of him.
Hope the dr’s are getting ’round to what is ailing you again, so you can get outta there. Don’t bust any stitches, girl. Thanks for the compliment, it’s mutual about your long-winded writing too. Yours more like letting-it-all-hang-out and colorful.
Alas! Alas! Some people sulk, deject, pout when in front of a work of satire. I have appreciated satire since I was in school. I love the art of Paotie’s writing so much that I can figuratively see the bright colours of aqua, yellow, pink — as if I were on the beach on Ibiza in the Mediterranean Sea.
Also, I love Paotie’s originality, creativity, imaginativity, semantically deep structure as depicted in his writings. (Holding a BA degree in English Literature with a minor in World Literature, I am a widely-read person not only of DeafRead but also of various printed matters.) So Paotie is such an enormous
gifted writer. Oh, do not let anyone take this avis rara down!
Welcome. Nomine, to Paotie’s Pinky Party! Yah, he’s a rarity all right.
MacDaddy,
The”Pink-eye” comment had me rolling! Jodi
Hee, hee…
Yup, Nomine… you are right, all right. Paotie is a rare gem.
Kim,
How nice of your hubby for shaving your legs. You should be passionated! Get well real soon!
Oh yeah, I’d love to be Eitoap’s reporter, nomine. He’s rare and unique person who writes the satires in the newspaper.
White Ghost… do you have a blog? ;o)
Me blog? Nah, I am not that great in creative writing
However, I am an avid reader.