Recently I learned a little ASL for fun and during my rewatching of TNG I surprisingly(but it's not unreasonable) found out that in the episode Loud As A Whisper, Riva is actually using ASL(I know many of you know this but I didn't). One the one hand I'm glad that they didn't just use some random gesture and say it's sign language, and I love seeing ASL on TV and raise concern for deaf people. But on the other hand seeing a character who supposed to be an alien using ASL is just, I don't know, kinda strange. But I still like this idea.
And I can see Brent Spiner tried hard to interpret but I can tell he didn't know the meaning so sometimes he interpret faster than he should be and sometimes he didn't sign all the words.
I didn't expect that before learning ASL. But now understanding what they were signing really gives me extra fun to see this episode.
And I can see Brent Spiner tried hard to interpret but I can tell he didn't know the meaning so sometimes he interpret faster than he should be and sometimes he didn't sign all the words.
I didn't expect that before learning ASL. But now understanding what they were signing really gives me extra fun to see this episode.
