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Post by tori on Sept 15, 2020 16:27:43 GMT -5
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Post by lizzy on Sept 15, 2020 18:47:53 GMT -5
If only I was a deafness dev....  |
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Post by blueskye101 on Sept 16, 2020 19:54:54 GMT -5
If only I was a deafness dev.... I sorta am but her books are well written stories. Interesting, complex characters. Not so much an amp dev but loved her last series anyway. |
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Post by tori on Sept 16, 2020 19:59:05 GMT -5
If only I was a deafness dev.... I sorta am but her books are well written stories. Interesting, complex characters. Not so much an amp dev but loved her last series anyway. Thanks blueskye101 that means a lot to me! I hear you, I can read about pretty much anything as long as it's a compelling story and well written. Doesn't need to be one of my primary interests. |
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Post by devogirl on Sept 17, 2020 8:12:49 GMT -5
Big deafness dev right here! I'm excited to read it. Thanks for sharing on the blog! I was so happy to see a main character who identifies as part of the Deaf community and uses ASL. It's so rare to find in romance novels, almost always it's an injury/recovery story or some magically perfect lipreading ability.
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Post by tori on Sept 17, 2020 8:48:28 GMT -5
Big deafness dev right here! I'm excited to read it. Thanks for sharing on the blog! I was so happy to see a main character who identifies as part of the Deaf community and uses ASL. It's so rare to find in romance novels, almost always it's an injury/recovery story or some magically perfect lipreading ability. He does read lips and eventually speaks audibly with a "Deaf" accent. (I had to figure out that communication barrier with these two) but I tried my best to explain that he kinda has to put the lip reading together like a puzzle (but obviously for literary purposes I had to write it in FULL sentences for most all of it) and put in his first chapter he CAN speak, but prefers not to. But I put that in there so my readers know I'm not ignorant and I did my research. Same with the ASL. I've read books where ASL is written without the "if, ands, but...etc" and the noun first, and as a reader I find that hard and jarring. So, I kinda "explained" to my readers with his exchange with the cashier how ASL IS, so I don't get skewered by the Deaf community on this. Above all else, I always want to be respectful. When he does finally use his voice, he ALWAYS signs at the same time. |
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Post by devogirl on Sept 17, 2020 9:02:18 GMT -5
I think that's the best way to do it. I agree, writing out English sentences using ASL grammar just makes the characters sound weird or uneducated which is counter productive. When I write Deaf characters I also opt to use correct English grammar as much as possible but give some indication that the language is actually different. I think you have to treat it just like translating from any other language.
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Post by lizzy on Sept 17, 2020 17:03:40 GMT -5
OK! OK! On it |
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Post by tori on Sept 22, 2020 8:03:07 GMT -5
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