Washing My Eyes Out With Soap
Yeah, so in class last night, we learned all the bad words that have ever been conceived in English and were taught the signed version of that. With visuals. And Motions. And things I never, EVER wanted to see my prof. do. Unclean! Unclean!
So yeah, maybe it's ok to let a little shampoo run in my eyes in tomorrow's shower. Scrub those images away. I guess I'm going to need them if I'm interpreting for someone who's momma didn't teach him right from wrong, but yeah. I was blushing. And the prof. called me on it. It's one thing to be married. It's another to be giving the class visuals on what married people do.
Geesh!
So yeah, maybe it's ok to let a little shampoo run in my eyes in tomorrow's shower. Scrub those images away. I guess I'm going to need them if I'm interpreting for someone who's momma didn't teach him right from wrong, but yeah. I was blushing. And the prof. called me on it. It's one thing to be married. It's another to be giving the class visuals on what married people do.
Geesh!
posted by Amstaff Mom | 10:13 AM
8 Comments:
Oh, no. Sweetheart. I laughed while still feeling bad for you. I would have been so embarrassed; I would have blushed if for no other reason than because I would think I *should* blush or that other people think I should blush (I hope that doesn't sound too nonsensical).
Thank you RR!
And I love that line from Pride and Prejudice. "I've been nonsensical". That word is soooo underused.
Too true, Amstaff, too true. :) We should bring back "nonsensical" back. Can we change the song? "I'm bringing 'nonsensical' back..."
Oh, AM, I think I would have been blushing beet read and hoping that the floor would open up and swallow me for sure.
I'm on the nonsensical bandwagon. It would be nonsensical not to use it more.
Haha! Oh, AM! I'm sorry that I find your story to be so funny. It's just that I can imagine it happening, and it makes me giggle.
I loved learning all the "bad" words. This was a direct result of something that happened to me my freshman year in high school, though. I lived with a girl (remember I went to boarding school) from Mexico City. At the time, I was taking Spanish but had never been exposed to anything but textbook vocabulary. Well, Beatriz thought it would be really funny to help me "study", and really teach me all the bad language instead. Only problem was that I didn't know the real definitions of the words I was learning. I thought they were just slang terms for various barnyard animals. Cut to my oral exam, and…well…you can imagine the look on my teacher’s face. Luckily, for me, my teacher knew exactly what had happened, and didn’t hold it against me. Instead, she used it as one of those “teachable moments” and told me – in oh-so delicate language – what the real definitions of my new words were. I’ve never been so embarrassed in my life, but it showed me how important it was to learn all the different “forms” language can take. Otherwise, people can take advantage of you. Doesn’t mean that you have to use the vocabulary, but it comes in handy to know it nevertheless (your example of the youngster is a good one).
Of course, the difference between Spanish and ASL is all the…ahem…motions that go along with making language. Everything is so exaggerated, and it isn’t like whispering is a realistic possibility in sign. Naturally, though, the “bad” signs are the ones that have (for the most part) been retained by my memory. In other words, I can tell you about a car wreck AND the verbal assault that took place afterwards by the two drivers. Essentially everything else, however, has been forgotten. Funny (and a little sad) how the brain works, huh?!
P.S. I'm a big fan of the word "nonsensical". I use it all the time. In fact, I used it in one of the first fights that Trevor and I ever had, and he told me to "stop making up big words". He went so far as to look it up before muttering "oh" and dropping it completely. :P
oh my word!! I would have blushed, too.
ahahahaha, sorry I shouldn't laugh, but really that would be so funny to watch BUT not participate in
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