[Ted talk] The enchanting music of sign language_Christine Sun Kim

This is summary about sign language by Christine Sun Kim. She start from a piano “p” that mean playing softly. When play music instrument if there is p you have to play softer. The current definition of silent is a very obscure sound. The history of American Sign Language (ASL). French sign language was brought to America during the early 1800s and as time pass this mixed with local signs, it call ASL today. A deaf person that living in sound like living in foreign country. To understand the sound she have two way: Fisrt, watching people response the sound, the people like loudspeaker for her and she learn and mirror that behavior. Second, in the same time she learn to create the sound and see how people respond to her. This is sound etiquette. Deaf culture, movement is equivalent to the sound. The sign for “staff” in ASL is a typical staff contains five lines, for her signing it with her thumb sticking up doesn’t feel natural, so she only draw four lines. She realize that sound like money, power, control and social currency. But in the back of his mine the sound is  a hearing person’s thing.  The similarities between music and ASL. For example: The concept of musical note not fully capture and expressed on paper this the same with a concept in ASL. Based on piano, ASL is broken down into many different grammatical parameters. ASL is more like a chord all fingers need to come down simultaneously to express the clear concept or idea in ASL. Cristine teach how the way say the time in sign language like a long time ago, past, used to and once upon a time by action nad drawing on the paper. Common time is a musical term with specific time signature of four beats per measure. The notice RH= right hand, LH= left hand. She demonstrate a hand shape called the “flash claw”. Using right hand and left hand in both the head and the chest kind of common time or at the same time. Grasp the two hand both head and chest and take quickly, that means “to fall in lone” in International sign language. International sign language as a note, is a visual tool to help communicate across culture and sign languages around the world.