I translated the opening scene for Numbers and Wrench which contained mostly ASL. Sorry about my font/color. I didn't know how to change it on the program I was using.
Great work! I wonder if this was not translated in the original in order to show Gold's perspective and to make Mr.wrench appear more menacing. Having the translation shows the brotherly relationship between the two hitmen, and it gives you a better sense of Mr. wrench's personality. I second the request for a translation for the other clips.
I think part of it is to make the (non-signing) audience feel as off-balance as deaf people do in the many many many situations in which everybody is talking without bothering to tell the deaf person what is going on. And it’s also akin to a hilarious Easter egg for those of us who are fluent lol.
I know enough ASL to understand most of what he said, so while i was watching this show with my sister i laughed at the questions he asked and I got the weirdest look from her haha
Okay, that swordfish thing is cracking’ me up. I didn’t know he said all those things. Although I could figure he said something about sex position based on his gesture.
okay, so in the 1st episode. Lester was talking to a couple who were having a baby and was trying to get insurance. The man says he works in a library. but there is no library.. whaaa 🤯
hm. Perhaps Mr. Wrench saying they were gonna slit his throat was foreshadowing, much like the beginning of Season 2 with *THE MASSACRE AT SIOUX FALLS*
all this time i thought their sign language was invented and didnt really mean anything and still thought it was hilarious that they took so much time to anwser the simplest questions
nope. ASL is it's own language, therefore having it's own syntax and grammar. ASL's sentence structure is usually very quick and to the point, no embellishments. The type of signing you're talking about would be Signed Exact English, which has a sign or spelling for every single word in an English sentence. It's very exhausting to do, not to mention more time consuming. There's plenty of websites that explain the difference if you want to learn more about it!
This scene infuriates me, Minnesota is one of the state with the highest libraries per capita. There are two public libraries and a University Library, the writer badly failed reality in this case, and Bemidji is a city of 15,000 not a town of about 2,000 like the series portrays
The guy with his wife getting insurance at the start of episode 1 said he worked at a library. It’s not that there isn’t a library, it’s that someone here is either wrong, or lying.
