Subtitled vlogs, if you want them then you start creating them
After Tony expressing discontent, Joe has gone one better and created a hilarious post which is subtitled, however not to what he is signing. Go and take a look, and you will not be disappointed.
This post was in response to some mumblings in certain quarters of cyberspace that BSL vlogs should be subtitled. My response: go to hell. Blunt words, but if you want to interact with BSL users, go and learn to sign.
A blog is a person's space to say exactly what they think, and in a language they wish to express themselves in. If its Riograndenser Hunsrückisch, Lak or even Chinese, where are the demands for such material to be made available in written English? Why do we get some kind of turf war as far as BSL users are concerned? Especially with employing tactics which bring about killer language traits, well known as far as English goes. Why is there pressure on the BSL user to become bilingual for another's benefit?
If you cannot stand watching BSL users expressing themselves in their language, I suggest you go away or better still just go and learn to sign. Or what good excuse have you cooked up in terms of what is stopping you?
I will sign off with the following paragraph from one version of the PR:
Self-publishing has traditionally been focused on the written word, which can and has prevented Deaf people from recording their experiences and traditions. The written word has also offered little interactivity and did not lend itself to the nuance and grace of sign language, itself a visual medium. Self-Publishing was often an expensive form of expression and historical record, with the equipment and software necessary for recording sign language costing more than the average Deaf person’s budget. As a consequence both experience and tradition have relied much upon the contemporaneous nature of an oral history which is, otherwise, left unrecorded.
Perhaps something to think about?