Vocal Voices

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013 ... it-up-fake

Braam Jordaan, a deaf South African and board member of the World Deaf Federation, said the interpreter was making up signs as he went along. "The structure of his hand, facial expressions and the body movements did not follow what the speaker was saying," Jordaan said. The man who signed for a section of the ceremony, including Barack Obama's speech, was simply making up his own signs, he said.

I'm going to apply for that job. The Ostrich can flap with the best of 'em .........

Really? How odd

How strange!

It's funny, but I thought the man doing the sign language wasn't doing it right.

Not that I know how to do it, but he didn't seem to be putting enough into it.

I didn't see it but it's been on the local news here all day. Deaf/sign readers have been saying it was rubbish, bore no relation to the speeches being made, and basically who the hell was he