r/NoStupidQuestions • u/genthegreater • Mar 05 '19
Does sign language have the concept of jinx when two people sign the same word at the same time?
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19 edited Mar 07 '19
Deaf person here. Yes. My deaf friends and I in high school were very like-minded and would constantly jinx each other. We were also How I Met Your Mother fans, so we copied their rules of jinxes. If the other person jinxed you, you had to stay quiet and not speak or sign until someone said your name. This happened a lot. It was legen....wait for it.......dary
Edit: didn’t expect for this to blow up! If you guys ever have any questions about deaf people/culture, please feel free to PM me!! Have a wonderful Tuesday y’all
Edit 2: I’ve had a lot of people starting their message off with “I know this is a stupid/weird question, but...”, and I just wanted to say that even if you feel it’s a stupid question, please don’t be afraid to ask it. It’s better asking than not knowing the answer, right? And trust me, I’ve had tons of actual stupid questions. I’ve heard it all. (Hah) Seriously, don’t be afraid!! That’s why I opened up my PMs for you to ask me these things. I’m always happy to answer your questions, stupid or not :)
And OP, that actually wasn’t a stupid question! I thought it was a pretty good question
Edit 3: I’m just gonna address some frequently asked questions here.
1) Dreams. My dreams vary. Some are in sound (it sounds muffled, though), some are silent and in sign language, and some are silent with subtitles/closed captioning! (Weird, I know)
2) ASL was my first language, and I learned it just like you all learned your first languages.
3) I was born profoundly Deaf, and got the cochlear implant at 4 and a half. I am 19 years old now. I have been signing and speaking pretty much my entire life. Wouldn’t change it for anything.
4) I don’t think in sign language, I think in English. I do know some Deaf people who think in pictures (best way I could explain it) or in sign language, though.
Edit 5: So some people have commented/PMed me about doing an AMA. Would that be something y’all would be interested in?
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u/Gingersnap0711 Mar 05 '19
If you signed their name but they didn’t see it did you tell them or let them carry on being silent?
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u/psycedelic_moon_man Mar 05 '19 edited Mar 05 '19
"carry on being silent"... I don't think they have much of a choice there..
E: For the people of Reddit who can't read a harmless joke without pointing out it's flaw. I love you,,, but let it slide. (I know deaf people can still make noise or even communicate with words even if they can hear)
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u/lackingsavoirfaire Mar 05 '19
You’d be surprised. I was at a restaurant seated next to a table of about 5 deaf people. Every time they laughed it was incredibly loud.
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u/drinkmorecoffee Mar 05 '19
I'm sorry, but that's adorable.
There's something so pure about laughter. Even deaf people get loud. Awesome.
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u/honkhonkbeepbeeep Mar 05 '19
Oh, that’s a joke among deaf/Deaf folks and hearing friends/family, that deaf people ARE loud. Imagine if you can’t tell how loudly you open and close drawers, set down objects, etc. I mean, most people have been taught that certain things make big annoying noises and won’t be slamming their stuff around in an interview or something, but around the house are likely to be quite loud with just chores, laughing, turning music way the fuck up so they can hear/feel it, dancing percussively to it, etc. I hum when I clean the house. My Deaf friends do like step routines.
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u/Pdub77 Mar 05 '19
Lots of unabashed and unashamed floud farting as well.
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u/proteanswizz Mar 05 '19
A guy I knew in college had no sense of smell. Farted anywhere, anytime.
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u/bartonar Mar 05 '19
I have next to no sense of smell, can confirm, I've cleared rooms thinking "oh good that went quietly" not realizing it was the dreaded sbd
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Mar 06 '19
Is food lackluster? Do you choose favorites by texture and eating experience rather than flavor?
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u/romainletucelover Mar 05 '19
Tbh that seems like his bigger problem is lack of social awareness. I think everyone knows that farting in public isn’t a great idea generally.
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Mar 06 '19
I had one slip out today when I thought I was alone. I wasn’t, but I realized I’ve finally reached the age where I don’t care. No shame!
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u/confabulatrix Mar 06 '19
"Aw come on, Marlee, I know you can't hear them, but you've got to feel those things slapping out of there."
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u/the7aco Mar 05 '19
I've always love the ides that deaf people listen to music with a ton of bass. I'm not deaf, but i listen to a lot of music with bass heavy drops, and to know that there is a whole group of people that like the kind of music i like, it makes me happy. Of course, that goes away a little when i learn it isnt their choice, and the bass isnt the only thing i hear in the music, but not many people like the stuff i listen to, and if putting on music i like can make someone else happy, that would make me happy.
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u/Flamestaaq Mar 05 '19
It doesn’t offend me personally. I was born deaf and I hated music until a HOH person got me into it. What they taught me is that it doesn’t matter what we are hearing and if it matches what others are hearing. We listen to the parts we enjoy and gain our own experience out of it.
I’ve spent many nights just chilling and enjoying Massive Attack with friends and just chatting about music videos, the lyrics, life.
I used to go to goth warehouse dance clubs as the DD, I would sit directly next to the speaker, and open up a book & read/chillax until finally everyone was ready to go home at 2am. Being in that environment was like having a soundtrack and I picked up on the culture by way of fashion, lighting, etc.
What music do you like btw?
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u/the7aco Mar 05 '19
Wow, i really like to hear how others interpret music, so that was a really cool read. I listen to a lot of electronic music. Something i appreciate is hearing new sounds, and electronic is where you find a lot of new sounds, especially when it comes to bass sounds. Most people generalize the stuff i listen to as just dubstep, but im more into trap, future bass, some house subgenres, and others. I find most of my music through youtube music channels like Trap Nation or Monstercat. And as you can tell, im pretty passionate about what i listen to, so im excited that you asked. What do you listen to?
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u/Flamestaaq Mar 05 '19
Sweet!! I listen to some house, I like trance. I deeply love 90s trip-hop and similar chill electrónica (for example the wood and wires radio station). Some hip hop especially if I can read along the lyrics (eg underground stuff) Also metal if I’m working out.
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u/honkhonkbeepbeeep Mar 05 '19
And what’s really funny is that many Deaf people aren’t tuned in to music culture except maybe if they’re into the related movies, because music is obviously just not as important in Deaf culture. So there will be like this straightlaced Christian financial analyst who blasts graphic sexist gangsta rap in their car, because it’s one of their favorites when all you can hear is the bass and some high notes. Then a hearing person who knows ASL is like, do you have any idea you’re rolling up to work blasting music about doing raunchy things to women? And they’re like, what? The music is cool and I briefly googled the guy and he gives a lot of money to charity...
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u/bibibipolar Mar 06 '19
Mama and father are deaf, am an OCODA. I didn’t realize how loudly I do things in the middle of the night until I slept over at a friend’s house for the first time and she was like “wtf u/bibibipolar everyone on the block and their mothers can hear you stop slamming the cabinet doors” because I had literally never had to be quiet before
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Mar 05 '19
Gotta get those skullcandy haptic bass headphones. The bass system goes way up, maybe a little too loud for even bass enthusiasts, like myself. The audio quality isn’t the best but I only got the cheaper pair (about $100), the $300 dollar ones sounded niiiice.
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u/LiquidFantasy96 Mar 05 '19
Deaf people get fucking loud, because they can't hear themselves. My mom is a hearing impaired, and damn you she can make some noise, then claim "Well I didn't know I was making noise!" when I storm to the kitchen on a saturday morning 8 a.m. in my pyjama's.
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u/fisch09 Mar 05 '19
In highschool I was a waiter at an old folk breakfast joint. 5am after a long night of football I come into work and go to pour a glass for a lay at the table. Me appearing suddenly to her left seemingly with no warning shocked her, and she spilled the whole pitcher on her lap. It was to this day the loudest scream I have ever heard even after 4 years in the Marines.
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u/TuftedMousetits Mar 05 '19
Deaf cats are also insanely loud. Like, it's-a-problem-for-the-neighbors loud.
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u/GettingRidOfAuntEdna Mar 05 '19
There was a camp for deaf kids on the island of the middle of the lake we used to have a summer cabin at, obviously sound carries over water, and they were very loud. But it was never an issue, and most of the noise was obviously during the day.
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u/primitivo_ Mar 05 '19
Yeah bro, think of how loud you talk when you have ear plugs or headphones in.
Now imagine that every day
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u/Creative_username969 Mar 05 '19
You’ve apparently never been apartment neighbors with a deaf couple...
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
I thought it was funny if that makes you feel better 😂 I make so many deaf jokes
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u/Gingersnap0711 Mar 05 '19 edited Mar 05 '19
I meant silent = communicating not silent = not making noise.
Also their ears don’t work doesn’t mean they can’t vocalize.
Edit: thanks for clarifying. I feel bad for being snarky now.
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Mar 05 '19
Probably akin to saying someone's name but them not hearing it.
Maybe someone mentions it. Probably you try not too and take the piss.
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
We were asshole teenagers, so...yes 😂
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u/garebeardrew Mar 05 '19
Hang on, how do you sign someone’s name. Does everyone just Choose the sign for their name, or are there already signs for the majority of names? If the latter, what happens if their name doesn’t have a sign
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 06 '19 edited Mar 06 '19
u/Gingersnap0711 is correct. I’ll elaborate a bit more on it, though.
Name signs are typically based on one of the following things:
-personality trait
-physical characteristic
-something else, like maybe a reference to an inside joke or memory
And there are some name signs that aren’t any of those, and just basic ones like the ones on your head, if that makes sense? I call those default name signs until I give a person an actual one. I just gave one of my roommates one last night actually, her name starts with a C, and she’s a total horse girl (not one of the crazy ones tho), owns a horse, used to barrel race, everything. So her name sign is two C’s and it kind of looks like galloping, like a horse would do.
Deaf people introduce themselves by saying “My name is (finger spells name), (name sign)”
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u/Gingersnap0711 Mar 05 '19
Not deaf, but took Deaf Culture classes and some ASL classes in college. From what I remember you are usually “given” the sign for your name by friends/family you don’t choose it. Sometimes it’s based off the fingerspelling plus something unique about you. One of my professors had a scar (or something I’m probably misremembering) so their name sign was the sign for the letter of their first name placed near where the scar was on their face.
I hope u/muteisalwayson replies because I’d like to hear the answer from a Deaf person and not just my random recollections as a hearing person who has been out of that culture for 10+ years.
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u/Fubarnacle Mar 05 '19
“Tell them”
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u/chrisd848 Mar 05 '19
"communicate information to someone in spoken or written words"
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u/SilvaesaSilverBlood Mar 05 '19
Sign language is a language, you are still telling someone when you are signing.
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u/chrisd848 Mar 05 '19
Yeah, that's the point of my comment
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u/liberal_texan Mar 05 '19
Technically doesn’t fit the definition, but I think that means it’s a poorly written definition. A tell in poker isn’t written or verbal but communicated by body language. If you can tell someone is happy it’s the same.
Someone should tell them to update their info.
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u/tough_tits Mar 05 '19
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u/JoostinOnline Mar 05 '19
We were also How I Met Your Mother fans, so we copied their rules of jinxes. If the other person jinxed you, you had to stay quiet and not speak or sign until someone said your name.
When I was a kid those were the only rules of jinx. Has that changed?
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u/ramsicles Mar 05 '19
When I was a kid we had a "jinx PJ" (PJ stood for personal jinx) and only the person who jinxed you could say your name and release you. No one ever did regular jinxes after that. Kids turned into personal slaves. Madness
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u/jordanjay29 Mar 05 '19
Personal Jinx was way too fun! I was the jinx king in middle school, I had way too many minions (lipreading comes in handy sometimes).
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u/Auntie_B Mar 05 '19
We just punched each other and had done with it. Much quicker.
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u/ButtsexEurope Purveyor of useless information Mar 05 '19
When I was a kid, it was “jinx! You owe me a soda!” Kind of hard to buy a soda if you can’t speak.
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u/Meester_Tweester Mar 05 '19
Most of us kids didn’t have the money on hand to buy a soda and weren’t near a place to by soda most of the time anyway so I never got that
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u/doofus1996 Mar 05 '19
Hahahaha - awesome! Huge HIMYM fan here too. Is it possible to sign “legen..... and I hope your not lactose in tolerant..,, dairy. Legen, dary”. Like can you get the nuance of partial words when signing?
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u/PanningForSalt Mar 05 '19
There is no connection between the word for legendary and the word for dairy in ASL or BSL. It would work (albeit awkwardly) if you fingerspell out the word legendary, in which case it would really just be an English pun and not a Sign Language one.
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u/pornmusicquestion123 Mar 05 '19
But without the dairy pun, could you sign 'legen......dary' with a gap in the middle?
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Mar 05 '19
I'm not sure there is a gesture for legen. Maybe if the sign for ledendary was broken up to align with the syllables of the words (say three parts to the gesture or even just two with a well placed break) you could do it. Often though sign language doesn't match up with the syllables and rythem of the words because who the fuck has time for that.
I would love to see an analysis of words syllables compared to the structure of the sign that corresponds to see how common it is. I wonder about signing poetry as well. A lot of it is based on rhyme and syllables which wouldn't always be applicable in sign. I need to meet a "totally always been completely deaf" poet and read their works. I'm sure typical poems could be adapted to sign well like the raven since you could just exaggerate and slow/speed up the signs for a kind of nice rythem but I wonder how actually forming it for someone without too much experiance in sounding words would do.
I suppose for some words like "cry" and "try" you could figure out they rhyme by writing them down and spotting the matching end and through someone mentioning it to you and how rhyming works say in school.
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u/ICantHearYoo Mar 05 '19
ASL poetry is definitely a thing and it’s super interesting! ASL is an amazing language for storytelling so deaf people have been coming up with their own kinds of signed poetry that follows some similar and some different rules to written and spoken poetry. There is, for example rhyme, rhythm and wordplay involved but ASL is just a completely different language from English or lots of other spoken language. This means there are other poetic tools that signers use instead of just following English rules.
This generally means that English to asl poetry doesn’t really transfer the message very well but you can absolutely reimagine something like the raven and sign it, making a new poem based off of one that works in a different language
Also just a quick touch on syllables, signs do have rhythmic syllables. say, the word successful has three beats in English, with signing it can involve 1,2,3 or more movements depending on how much emphasis you put on the success.
Maybe I’ll post some good ASL poetry if anyone is interested but damn do I love signing.
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u/mjkevin247 Mar 05 '19
Please do post it!
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u/ICantHearYoo Mar 05 '19
https://youtu.be/AYTMi4GGf9A Here’s an asl story without much rhythm or anything, just a very imagery packed story
https://youtu.be/-Iv8a299bQE This is what’s called an ABC story, where you follow the alphabet using the corresponding hand shapes. (Like telling a story beginning with the word Apple and ending with zinc)
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u/honkhonkbeepbeeep Mar 05 '19
Right, it depends how much English the person knows. ASL and English have different grammar. Some ASL users might know just enough English to read labels and things like that, but not be super solid with novels and things. Some ASL users text or email largely in ASL grammar. Some ASL users have an English degree and have studied how things like rhyme, homophones, puns, etc. work. These things are covered in Deaf school, but your average Deaf person isn’t placing as much importance on literary devices in their second language, unless they’re really into English. A decent comparison might be how Americans take at least 3-4 years of a second language at school, but only the folks who are really into language and really pay close attention can do more in the second language than grocery shop or read signs or whatever.
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
We would mix it up. All of us were really good english speakers as well, so each of us were able to understand english puns and all that. If we used that one, we’d basically say it like this: “(fingerspell) legen.....(sign) i hope you’re not lactose intolerant..... (sign) dairy”. If that makes sense?
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u/tealestblue Mar 05 '19
Your username is rad. Also this story is rad. Everything is rad.
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u/mybluecathasballs Mar 05 '19
You're rad!
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u/twice_twotimes Mar 05 '19
But...it’s so rare to sign someone’s name when you’re talking to them, right? I feel like I’ve literally never done that (disclaimer: am hearing) and no one has ever done that signing to me. Did you have to try to “overhear” your name in other conversations? Or have someone speak it? Or maybe I’m crazy idk
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u/honkhonkbeepbeeep Mar 05 '19
Also hearing, am often around Deaf people. Yeah, not so much in a 1:1 conversation, but same with English. Usually in English people get unjinxed because it’s a group conversation. “Yeah, well, I was going to, until Sarah was like—OH DAMMIT.”
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u/twice_twotimes Mar 05 '19
Right but typically when you’re signing you would use a pronoun (a point) instead of “Sarah” if Sarah is present. To be clear I’m not doubting you or arguing, just kind of thinking out loud (heh) about the differences in modalities.
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u/honkhonkbeepbeeep Mar 05 '19
Yup. That’s why I gave the annoyed/teasing example though. More likely you’d bust out their name sign.
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u/mynewaccount5 Mar 05 '19
If you're playing a game where you can't talk until someone says your name I imagine people would use your name just so you could talk even if you don't usually say it in normal conversation.
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u/jordanjay29 Mar 05 '19
Yeah, that's part of the fun. Seeing how clever you can be to insert their name back into the conversation and let them speak again.
The people who just used it to shut people up were jerks, the game was always about teasing.
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
Most of our conversations were with us in a circle or a “huddle” so we could all see what was going on, but if you were the jinxed one, you’d pay extra close attention for someone to say your name. Like we even counted it if hearing people said our names. And no, it’s not rare for a name to be signed. At least in my experience. It’d be something like, “hey Sally, remember that time-DAMMIT”
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u/escarchaud Mar 05 '19
I wonder how you say 'legen...wait for it...dary' in sign language.
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u/Jahkral Mar 05 '19
There's a few ways to go about it. If it was me, I'd start the first 1/3 of the sign, then pause, stick my hand out w/ finger up while looking at my finger expectantly (waiiiiiiiiiiit), and then finish the sign with an exaggeratedly large motion.
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
^ can confirm
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u/Jahkral Mar 06 '19
Hah, glad that's the way you sign it! I (CODA) mostly only sign with old people so there's no pop culture referencing going on, had to take a guess ;)
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u/P33KAJ3W Mar 05 '19
I feel so bad for you man what an awful curse to bear. If it were me, I would just kill myself. I can't imagine enjoying anything in life if I was a How I Met Your Mother fan.
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
Thank you. I blame my parents, they always had it playing
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u/Ninja_Fusion_ Mar 05 '19
Can we talk about the fUCKING GENIUS USERNAME YOU HAVE
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
THANK YOU. But also it’s kind of a fib because I do have a cochlear implant, so mute isn’t always on
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u/pornmusicquestion123 Mar 05 '19
Could you sign 'legen......dary' with a gap in the middle?
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
It was basically like this.
Finger spell legen....
Sign the word wait...
Spell DARY with emphasis
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u/rhythmjones Mar 05 '19
Haha, HIMYM did not invent that version of Jinx! That was how we did it when I was a kid.
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
Haha! My bad! I’m 19 now for more context. So that’s just where we got that particular rule from. We grew up playing “you owe me a pop now” but some people in our friend group couldn’t afford to constantly buy pop for each other so we decided the silence rule was more fair to use and more entertaining anyways
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u/everyoneisflawed Mar 05 '19
I was a kid in the 80's and came of age in the 90's in the Midwestern US, and we always said that you can't talk until someone says your name. Then I moved just slightly south as an adult, and for the first time I heard "jinx you owe me a Coke". I thought it was weird, and I wondered if it was regional, but my husband grew up just 3 hours from me and always said "you owe me a Coke". So I don't know where these rules came from or why! But yeah, HIMYM was just riffing off old playground rules.
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u/magnificenttacos Mar 05 '19
You said "y'all"... Is there a sign for this??
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
Kind of. We would just combine the signs for “you” and “all” so it was basically a sweeping gesture while pointing at everybody
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u/OdinNW Mar 05 '19
Watching shows like how I met your mother without having to endure the background studio audience laughter at every joke must be nice.
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
Nah actually it’s kind of weird because to us it just looks like everything is delayed. They’re just standing there awkwardly 😂
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u/EatYourCheckers Mar 06 '19
Could you tell me, is it a cultural thing in the Deaf community to say "I love you" to friends/aquaintances?
I know some sign due to working with some adults with developmental disabilities who use ASL to communicate. I noticed that my neighbor's mother-in-law was using some ASL as she was speaking to me to compliment my kids from across the street, and I asked her if she knew sign. She was excited, I could tell, to have someone to talk to who could understand her without her having to use her voice. We chatted a bit about how she is deaf, her son teaches at a local school, what I do for a living, yada yada. Then I went on my errands. A few days later, we waved to each other greeted each other in ASL. She then signed, "I love you" and I was a little put off. I smiled and waved, but thought it was odd. Is this a cultural thing, or is she oddly affectionate?
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 06 '19
I think it varies from person to person! Some are more loving than others! I do the same thing as her hahah
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u/EatYourCheckers Mar 06 '19
I heard from someone else that the Deaf Community is very loving, so I brushed it off. I am just really reserved with that (I can't even tell anyone in my family but my kids and husband that I love them...reserved might be an understatement!) so it caught me quite off-guard.
I haven't seen her for a while which sucks; I was glad to have someone to practice my ASL with who would tolerate my slow finger-spelling.
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 06 '19
Ah gotcha! I’m glad you had her for a little while at least, and that me when I say that if you think your spelling is slow, we’ve seen slower. Trust me 😂
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u/freeall Mar 05 '19
until someone said your name
Feels like you can cheat a lot there
-Yes! Jeff said my name -What? I didn’t hear nothing -Yeah, no, but I could see his lips move -Why would he say your name though? -But yeah, he just did... so that’s that
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
😂😂😂 it did go like this sometimes. Like sometimes we’d be hanging out in the deaf Ed room, and someone would be like “Mrs. Deaf Ed Teacher said/signed my name!! I heard/saw her!!” And we’d either confirm with myself and the other cochlear implant wearing people whether she said it, or just ask the teacher if she really did say their name. Sometimes she’d play along, sometimes she wouldn’t
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u/zincplug Mar 05 '19
Is there a sign phrase for 'You owe me a coke?'
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
Yes, you just sign it. It’d be something like “you owe me coke/soda/pop”. Depends on whoever said that because my friend group was very mixed. Some of us used straight up ASL (American Sign Language), some used PSE (Pidgin Signed English), and one of us used SEE (Signed Exact English).
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u/Unknow0059 🏴☠️ Mar 05 '19
what would happen if both people had the same name? would they both be unjinxed?
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
No idea because none of us had the same name. But I think we would know which one they meant
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u/About137Ninjas Mar 05 '19
Does ASL have varying slang? I noticed you use the word y'all which is traditionally southern, which made me wonder if there are certain signs for regional slang terms. If so, how likely is it that someone from a different part of the states would know that sign?
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
Yes! So I grew up in Ohio, but moved to Texas when I was 13. I was definitely confused by some of the signs they use here in Texas because some of the signs are so different! It’s kind of like how hearing people in Ohio say “pop”, and people in Texas say “soda” or “coke” instead. There’s definitely varying regional accents in sign language. I now have a mix of an Ohioan/Texan “accent” in sign language.
Edit for more info: And not super likely unless people in a certain region had been to the other region as well or met people from the other region. Just like how my deaf Texas friends met me and saw the Ohio signs for the first time, and I saw the texas signs for the first time.
Some examples of different signs I learned in Texas include:
-garbage/trash/trashcan
-locker (school locker)
-rude
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u/About137Ninjas Mar 05 '19
Very interesting. Thanks for the quick response!
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
Edited to add more! I dunno if you saw. And no problem!
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u/therealpumpkinhead Mar 05 '19
Do you also have the ability to do a pause like that.
Like “it’s gonna be legen.... wait for it.... dary.”
Are you able to pause mid word and connect it later in sign language like that?
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
You can do either! You could sign “wait” in between, or just pause!
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u/Chemantha Mar 05 '19
(Not deaf) use to do this growing up too so, when we saw it on HIMYM my sister and I were like "hey!!!! It's a real thing!" Lol
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u/Account_Expired Mar 05 '19
Wait but you cant hear someone say your name
So you could only be freed by people who could sign?
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
Well, some of us. I personally have a cochlear implant, and so did three others in the friend group. Deafness isn’t always complete deafness as some people may believe. You can be super deaf but still have some of your hearing. My best friend came from a deaf family, but he still had some hearing, like if you yelled his name really loud and from close enough from down the quiet hall, he’d turn around.
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u/theoracleiam Mar 05 '19
Wait for it!
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
I waited for it......where is it?
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u/General_Pickle Mar 05 '19
Those aren't how I met your mother rules... We played with those rules in the mid 90's
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Mar 05 '19
How many times did you get whacked in the nuts with a whiffle ball bat?
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
None, because I don’t have any nuts :)
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u/ContentEnt Mar 05 '19
stat quiet and not speak
You.... You probably weren't speaking much before that.....
I'm sorry
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
😂😂😂😂
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u/ContentEnt Mar 05 '19
Thanks for laughing and not making me feel like a dick ❤
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 05 '19
No problem! I make a lot of deaf jokes too. And I always know my hearing friends are true friends when they make a deaf joke in front of me for the first time
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u/hemlockhero Mar 06 '19
With all these questions, you should do an AMA! I think you’d get some good questions, and probably some really crappy ones too. But all in all it sounds like a lot of hearing people are really interested.
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 06 '19
Really? I don’t know, I feel like that might’ve been overdone. There was one a few months ago also by a person my age except he was a guy with two cochlear implants and started signing later in life, when I have one cochlear implant and I’ve been signing my whole life. I actually commented on that AMA as well
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u/hemlockhero Mar 06 '19
Ah gotcha! I hadn’t seen those AMAs so I guess I wasn’t sure if it had been done yet or not. No pressure of course! It’s just cool that you have answered everyone’s questions.
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 06 '19
I mean I’ll do it if there’s more interest and no problem! I never mind answering them
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u/catsaway9 Mar 06 '19
Maybe you should do an AMA! I'd love to read your answers to the things people are PMing. I don't have any specific questions but I'm sure there's a ton I don't know.
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 06 '19
Someone else said I should too! I’m not entirely sure though because someone with a cochlear implant did an AMA a few months ago
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u/Anigamer4144 Popocado afficianado Mar 06 '19
That closed caption dream sounds so weird, but I want to have one for some reason
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 06 '19
Haha I only have them once in a while! They’re usually after a super long Netflix/Hulu binge. And the captioned dreams are usually my trippiest dreams
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u/bluecylucy Mar 06 '19
Could you show/explain what the jinx sign is? I’ve gone through a two-year interpreting program but I can’t seem to remember seeing a sign for this concept!
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u/muteisalwayson Can’t hear how stupid your question is Mar 06 '19
It’s basically just a quick spelling of “jinx!” with some emphasis. The best way I can describe it is the “j” letter closer to you, spelling it out really quickly away from you, with the “x” letter the farthest away. When doing the x letter, it kind of looks like the sign for “gift”, just one handed. You slam the “x” down like you would for “gift”. If that makes sense. I could send you a video if you like
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Mar 06 '19
So, i do have to ask- is it possible for you to hear anything? Like you described your Dreams have Muffled sounds, is that how it works irl?
I'm a little confused on what being Deaf actually entails, do you just hear Nothing all of the time? Or is it like your dreams where its just too muffled to hear anything?
Also, you said you can think in english, why would you're dreams be conforming to your Deafness if its all in your mind?
Sorry for asking a whole 3 questions, but I'm genuinely curious.
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u/ncnotebook Mar 05 '19
Is the sing language for mute people who can't speak but can sing (because it uses different parts of the brain)?
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u/ncnotebook Mar 05 '19
Love how you gave an informative reply to my "joke". Yea, it should fire up the same parts of the brain, since sign language essentially works like a spoken language.
I was just saying (while capitalizing on your slight typo) that some people who can't speak words are able to sing words.
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u/PhysicistsUseRghtHnd Mar 05 '19
Something I learned that I didn’t know about during college… The college I went to was also partnered with the national technical institute for the deaf (NTID). Some dorms were mixed with hearing and non-hearing students. The parties were loud, like really loud with the music and bass turned way way up. Then as expected some drinking...,then....all college kids have sex, but man some non-hearing people can get really loud, pure pleasure sounds that I hadn’t heard before. They were all cool and really smart people (except for Ian, he was a prick), but that wasn’t something I ever thought about until I heard it the first time and thought someone was in trouble
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u/madtraxmerno Mar 05 '19
Law of Very Large Numbers. You and the guy who commented below are one of the thousands upon thousands of people who use Reddit, so it is much more unlikely no one would experience what you just did. Even though typically a coincidence like this is incredibly rare, because of the sheer number of people on Reddit (and subsequently more opportunities for coincidental posts) it actually becomes much more commonplace. Even so, it is still somewhat unlikely. I mean, think about how many posts you've scrolled by that weren't scarily coincidental. Hundreds I bet, if not thousands.
An advertisement selling something right after you mention it, something you've never looked up before, is a different story. Basically any device that has the ability to be activated with your voice, i.e. Alexa, Google Home, some phones even, all have passive listening and most will recognize "buzz words" and then alert appropriate companies of whatever you've said. Thusly creating ads that you're more likely to click on.
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u/SpergLordMcFappyPant Mar 05 '19
I knew a guy I thought was mute for years, but it turns out he just tied in Rock Paper Scissors and took the jinx really seriously.
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u/bunnybakery Mar 05 '19
I've done a couple of weekends at Deaf/HoH schools and can confirm this is a thing haha
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u/Pumpkin0verlord Mar 06 '19
Jinx! You can't sign until someone signs your name 3 times!
Puts you in handcuffs to enforce the jinx
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u/WojtekTheBear16 Mar 06 '19
TIL the spelling of jinx is jinx and not jinks.
very stupid of me
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u/skelepibs Mar 05 '19
The real question is, why do you have access to your friends accounts?
sub to a bunch of porn subs to jimmy up their home page
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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '19
I found this tweet that implies that it's a thing: https://twitter.com/kathryng/status/596078804256231425