A Few Minutes In The Life Of A Sign Language Interpreter, The Classroom

Confusion ensues when a sign language interpreter introduces herself to a college professor

[@jasminedowner304]

INCREDIBLE She was throwing some serious shade 😅

[@defbug]

BIG TIME, with a little bit of sarcasm which he didn't have a clue of getting, HILARIOUS!!!!

[@keinark]

"Holy Crap. That's amazing." Cracks me up every time.

[@ambernile123]

LOL "Remember that thing I mentioned before, about interpreting? It'll be because of that." haha

[@C.Lynn_Jones]

Our ASL teacher showed this to my class today, best thing I have ever watched XD

[@emmycook2728]

Lynn Marie sammeee

[@jayasmrmore3687]

Same

[@marthaosgood1523]

When my blind friend checks out at the supermarket with a credit card, the cashier often says - "Now you have to push the green button."

[@dmf1301]

Another brilliant video. Convincing the college professor to make a fool of himself doing a ridiculous dance as he thinks it is sign language for "hello!"... classic!! :)

[@tigresslover77]

"That'll be so distracting for the other students" Give them a few days and they'll get used to it

[@amethystcovette]

the sad part is that these are all real things we go through

[@miablossom73]

I am linking and crediting this as part of my assignment for dignity in the workplace guide for staff!

[@mafketays]

"remember the thing I mentioned before ... about me interpreting?" This is sooooo epic, I am in total awe.

[@audreyporter7641]

lol, "on the back of a Santor or carried in on a couch carried by shirtless men like she's Cleopatra"

[@lucyhcx]

Audrey Porter none of this is funny

[@realmofthemisunderstood166]

*centaur

[@xoxluckycharmsx]

This is what siri does on her half time lol

[@delmicortave]

I laught so much 😂😂 cleophatra lol funny video 👍👏 " I guess by now she can figured how to get to class by herself" "carry like cleophatra"

[@zaccam]

I didn't know Siri was a Sign Language interpreter. (:

[@nolanaserian555]

I thought he was doing the juju on that beat dance

[@stormie272]

Wow! Amazing depiction of the pov. So many misunderstandings.

[@MsJennieThomas]

Yes!!!! This is 100% on point!

[@LinariaFreeze]

25% of my courses in uni so far had sign language interpreters. It's so interesting! Also, the deaf guy in my class this semester is really handsome... and I'm too shy to contact to him :( (the interpreter, e-mail, Facebook, there are ways, and I'm too shy).

[@sierrawilloughby3417]

Did you ever contact him???

[@zoemt2356]

yes tell us all

[@fooskieruck2922]

what happened?

[@LinariaFreeze]

Wow guys! Sorry to disappoint you, but nothing happened :( I was too shy to talk to him, it's fine though!

[@fooskieruck2922]

Trine Hemmelig well, there's plenty of fish in the sea. Next time!

[@83Baggers]

This is almost what we come up against at work, lol funny as fuck..

[@saramckee8333]

This is so funny. This is the best thing I've seen you youtube for a while!

[@lynnekelly2000]

Thanks for all the comments, everyone! Great to see people are enjoying the videos. I didn't expect it to make the rounds like it has, so that's pretty cool! Hopefully we'll never come across anyone quite this clueless.

[@mightysp00]

The accuracy of this video is hilarious. I've experienced this type of "ignorance" from the deaf side. teachers and people who really have no concept... Brilliant!

[@Baphometal.666]

I love these videos. If I was an interpreter these are some of the sarcastic responses I would probably give to ignorant people. AWESOME

[@TemRMRF]

lol, my parents are deaf, i have to interpret for them a lot. this comes close to a lot of hearing people i encounter.

[@julia.m.6808]

I'm seriously laughing out loud! I can't!!!

[@thedebdrob]

OMG!!! Too funny! Whoever wrote the script, nailed it!!! I'm sending it to every terp I know... Plus a few professors...

[@knowledgeanderson3847]

I'm dying right now. It shows such ignorance you can only laugh

[@MothJosh]

It's the sign language equivalent of the spoken-word "blappety blap bla bla yip yip yap".

[@michaelg3074]

I love snappy answers to stupid questions. The eye rolling is priceless.

[@whereskevan]

Lol! I love the sarcasm!

[@NikkiScatch84]

this is so funny!! i love how sarcastic this interpreter is, all the ones i had were dull! lol

[@AMterp]

Thank you so much for the good laugh! I'll be watching and hoping for more!!

[@crkterpable]

LOVE it!!! keep 'em coming!!!

[@imjustsayin100]

champ! this video will never get old. lol!!

[@Sixica]

This video makes me want to cry and start twitching as I laugh hysterically...because it's ALL TRUE! Who knew college professors could be so incredibly ignorant. It's truly eyelid-twitch-worthy! My personal real-life favorite was the ESL teacher who asked the deaf student which way of saying an English sentence SOUNDED correct. *face-palm!*

[@lynnekelly2000]

@SignsOfDevelopment Yes, we HAVE to do that! Can't wait to see interpreters doing the robot.

[@TerpChris1029]

This is incredibly funny--I showed it to an office full of terps today and everyone was in hysterics! The things that are so funny about it are that we have all met this teacher and been asked inane questions and the interpreter's responses which are absolutely priceless! Brava! More, more!:)

[@kemurphy00]

This is so awesome, even my non-signing hubby was ROFL at the "hello"

[@rebannelayton]

More! More! More! HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tommlia]

This is incredible I have shown this to many of my interpreter collegues

[@Darkgrass]

LOL, love that the interpreter is so sarcastic. XD

[@AlxVtr1]

lynnekelly2000 - Your videos totally rock! I was randomly checking out KZbin videos based on a theme then was indirectly led to your videos. I was laughing and laughing! Thank you for sharing your experiences as an interpreter, I can't wait to check out the rest of your videos! :)

[@txbrown]

Excellent!! I was CRACKING up!!! Major! Whoo.... *tear*

[@lynnekelly2000]

Thanks so much! Glad you came across the video and enjoyed some laughs from it.

[@alsterp]

I don't know you, but you've hit all the nails on the head. Thanks for the laughs. :o)

[@MCRochNY]

Sooo sad, yet sooo ture. Every freakin' day :) Great job!

[@SignsOfDevelopment]

Yes Lynne, that will be great - a job interview. You must be having so much fun doing these - it is what ALL of us want to say! We also should all start greeting each other with the professor's "sign language" at conferences and such - our secret greeting!!!

[@heathblake5541]

And I'm dying from laughter. Haha

[@Largo64]

This is brilliant! Very funny!

[@analuciam.m.4245]

"I'll give you a moment to think about that" ahahhahhaha

[@SheikTV1]

As a fellow interpreter I'd like to thank you guys. Awesome work.

[@heyheyhelen]

This is brilliant!

[@TheWorkersAreFew]

Hey Lynne! Hope you are doing well! I wanted to let you know I went to a trilingual conference in Puerto Rico last week and met an interpreter from the Virgin Islands. He started talking about how great your videos...he LOVED them. He said you need to make more, haha, and he said that he forwarded your videos to a bunch of people. Thanks for making these!

[@methvinss]

yeah, you should totally do that. LOL!!! dear Lord, I love this video...watched it three times already.

[@lynnekelly2000]

Haha! Very cool! I do need to think of another scenario and make a new video. Thanks for letting me know!

[@ASLeslie]

Thanks so much!! I love this!

[@jesehcuh]

love this!!!!!

[@jadynray]

i loved this!

[@sydneyandsam1]

this is spot on and hilarious

[@spamjela]

Oh my gosh....too funny! I have to explain like this to people about my fiance who's deaf. It is so true!

[@AuntieCass]

sooo good; sooo true!

[@LucasW86]

I love this. It's so sarcastic and the guy is so clueless. xD

[@books4evr]

I cannot tell you how much i love this! i look forward to the mental health one! how i wish we could say some of this stuff! ROFL! I have been accused of hand flapping. hysterical!!!

[@jlewis12063]

LOVE IT!!!!!!

[@lazygizmo]

People: Interptreter: don't get fired, don't get fired...

[@jenn30lee]

OMG that is so funny! Love it!

[@lynnekelly2000]

I saw there was a comment earlier about captioning-- it's deleted now, so maybe that means you did get the captions to work, but for anyone else who's wondering, the videos are captioned so deaf people can view them also. If you click the "CC" below the video, that should bring up the captions.

[@SignsOfDevelopment]

Lynne (from another Lynne) these are great!!! I am not sure which one is my favorite and look forward to seeing more!!! Mental Health is next ;) could be fun!!!

[@fruitybooty663]

i dont even know asl or know much about the deaf culture but this had me dead!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@zaccam]

I just died! Omg! So hilarious! The first time I saw this at 2:06 I accidentally clicked pause, because I was uncontrollably laughing. And I kept laughing because it went with what was said in the video. I've never laughed so hard.

[@fluffyduckbutt24]

ahhaahah i love these videos!!! i don't know how you do it but you must be a terp cuz you know exactly what we go through.

[@TheJudy40]

So funny. Thanks for sharing.

[@Brianvanvlymen]

the greatest video i have seen. ! :)

[@lynnekelly2000]

@signoutloud2 I've uploaded captions from a transcript I typed and saved as a .txt document, but I'll look into using annotations next time; I like the look of that better than the captions I have. And thank you! Glad you've enjoyed the videos and were inspired to do your own!

[@PecanSandees23]

This was so funny and sad because so many people feel that way. When I told someone I was learning ASL, they asked me if anyone "still uses that". Ugh!

[@kreiger]

LOL this is awesome. As an interpreting student I hear about all sorts of things that interpreters are asked by other people.

[@GGJ5]

This is too hilarious, because it's so painfully true! I was mentioning sign language to my hearing students and one asked "so did you have to learn Braille?" ....lolwut? So... yeah. (:

[@palmvictory]

I'm a terp, too. It's just amazing what folks with all kinds of degrees will come up with. Terp: "Just look at her and speak in English." Hearie: "But how will she understand what I say?" Aargh!!

[@JustinHaugens]

Love this video, my wife is hard of hearing and although I haven't encountered all of these questions in one situation, each question is accurate. Consider this the greatest hits of dumb questions regarding sign language interpreters.

[@charcoaljohnson]

For those who don't know ASL, the teacher signs "I Love myself! Wow. Missiles launching. Lifting boxes my left arm went limp, but I still lifted the box." Then when he says that will be distracting, he signs "lesbian."

[@JesusMuZicINC]

I love it...

[@MzBrazil83]

this is funny, i love it

[@22Di44]

This is hilarious but at the same time it's so sad how the average hearing person is so ignorant.

[@katrinanoellex]

well the first sign meant " Love"

[@Kenzie22M]

i love the arm things he does! haha

[@popprincess3601]

Okay, so far I don't really know anything about sign language but was lookig it some videos to see what it's like in the deaf community. I allowed the guy like his first two slips thinking maybe he was just ignorant but even as a hearing person (I don't know if that has anything to do with this situation, I just see people making the distinction) I would have punched the guy in the face. I have a short tolerance for the stupidity of the "educated". If this is really what people have to go through (I don't know if this is an exaggeration) but I if people are like this, I would seriously have to restrain myself. Dear gosh, really...

[@Deaftrav]

we do, in college an university... even from the accessibility office

[@amethystcovette]

sadly this is not an exaggeration. the things he said are things you hear in this profession

[@lynnekelly2000]

@jaredarchambeau Thanks, glad you're enjoying it! It actually is captioned already, so if you click the "CC" below the video, the captions should come up.

[@melfigue2516]

Looooool so accurate!

[@lynnekelly2000]

@rickibunnyrabbit Thanks, glad you like the videos! Actually they're already captioned, so when you click the "CC" button below the video, the captions should come up.

[@carolinebridges8356]

although I wished this was captioned so I could send it to friend of mine who is deaf he'd love it!!!!

[@lynnekelly2000]

@InsaneMisha That's fabulous, thanks for letting me know!

[@bertissimo]

Inspiring.

[@introvertdude99]

This seems like actual stuff I’d be on the brink of saying

[@be3ptr0]

i've seen this and the video about a day in the life of an audiologist. please make one for teachers of the deaf next!

[@lynnekelly2000]

@rkpdmbfan Hi, great to hear you've enjoyed the videos! They are all captioned, so if you click on the "CC" below the video, the captions should show up.

[@skimlines]

Wow, that interpreter is totally April Ludgate.

[@evolvingboard]

This made me crack up, I'd like to think that as a hearing person I'm not that ignorant about these things.

[@lynnekelly2000]

@mkrajnak It is captioned; captions should come up when you hit the "CC" button at the bottom of the video.

[@mikediano]

kkkk Cool! I´m a sign language interpreter n sometimes I meet some guys like that.

[@dawn8293]

Mike Diano could you give examples? That sounds hilarious.

[@rkpdmbfan]

I love all of these videos. This is one of my favs. I'm an interpreter and also related to a bunch of deaf folks. Some of us are wondering if these can be captioned. I see some comments below about captions, but I don't see them. Did you repost with captions?