Good morning, hello and welcome!
Would you like to know how snow watch is going?
I swear this is the sunniest month we've had...
All year it decides that December is going to be the super sunny month
Is it wrong to want the Christmases of my childhood
We went to the lake district and my grandparents were there and pretty much all of my family
There was so much snow, I swear there was so much snow
I can remember coming out of the car once and just [falling noise]
Face first into some snow
That sounds terrible but now I realise it was great
So today is a not busy/busy day
I'm leaving the house
So that makes it really special
So I'm going to do first of all a little comparison of BSL and ASL Christmas signs
With the amazing Rikki Poynter!
And I'm really kind of fan-girling about this
because I think she| was the very first person that I ever found
that I could relate to about deafness, the only person on the internet
who I found who was talking about just...
Deafness not from the perspective of like had been brought up in a deaf family, had generations of deafness
and was really really part of the community
Because a lot of what she talks about is being in the outside world
and communicating with non-deaf people
and helping to relate to non-deaf people what it is like to be deaf which obviously...
that's what I do
So it felt really good
and I watched her stuff way before I even did any Youtube stuff
Back when I think I just had my account to watch Buffy & Faith videos
and there other stuff is happening today
I am going out for lunch yay!
with my really good friend Oliver
I say really good friend, I've known them for a few weeks
but does that matter?
I really really like him
I met him at the Scope Inspirations ball
Which you can see at the start of my 100K video
I don't think we got much footage of Oliver in that
But that's were we met him and he was just awesome and his videos are really great
His camera work specially is amazing
He is also going to tell me about drones
because... that is my wife's dream
She desperately wants a drone more than anything
And I'm like...
Lady, I was going to get you socks for Christmas
and now the kind people of Youtube have donated some lovely money so you would get more than socks
But a drone is a bit far...
I'll get her a tamagochi
Do they still make them? I have no idea
So let's look at today's outfit
There we go
So on top we have this lovely little turban
From Lady K Loves
You can get one of these in my giveaway
But I put a little brooch on top of it
And then I have a little cardigan from Max Sweaters
which I think has just the cutest... look at this
and the dress is the Vivien of Holloway (it looks like I am going to expose myself)
It's the Vivien of Holloway green satin dress
that I was wearing to the Youtube Christmas Party the other day
Evening and party dresses should be day wear... yes!
and a cardigan helps that happen
I had to move into sunlight to show you my shoes because look at that
Look how spakly and gliterry they are
and here's a close up of the vintage brooch
One of my most asked questions has to be : what are the differences between
American Sign Language
and British Sign Language
Well I thought I'd show you
to the medium
of Christmas sign language
Yes!
And here to help me out is my american friend Rikki Poynter
So what we are going to do now is I'm going to sign the British sign for each thing
then we'll get the ASL version and then I'm just going to tell you the differences
First off
Uh the ASL one is so different
I actually... this is one of the fewest ASL signs I know
because I really love Miracle on 34th Street
and Sanders signs to the little girl in that
and I love it...
So our Christmas is because Christ is soft, kind and gentle, and the 'mas' is quite a hard sound
The american sign is so interesting 'Eve' I like that
Ours instead is like this because is the same as night or dark
I think our merry is quite similar here, there's is more:
Coming from your throat, I suppose like laugher
This sign is really interesting because again it just shows the differences between 2 types of English
In England we only use the word holidays
to mean we are going on vacation
That's a holiday
So if we are saying holidays in the American way we just say Christmas and just sign that instead
Holidays
So again our Happy Holidays is just the same as Merry Christmas
You are just lip patterning differently
So cool that we have the sign that is the same
That's awesome
Although I have seen some people in England who just finger spell Hanukkah
But wow, dyslexia hit me with a big stick
We don't have such a large Jewish population in England as they do in America
So we don't actually tend to see any Hanukkah things around even if shops
Although that is obviously not the case if you go to a predominant Jewish area
I think that's why our sign is the same as theirs, probably because we copied them
I really like that their sign follows through
So that Christmas and tree become one sign, whereas ours is much Chrismtas. Tree.
[laughs]
Although I have seen often in signed songs, bsl signed songs, that you can use
That was terrible but that was supposed to be the shape of a Christmas tree
I think I drew that very badly
Don't judge me
The sign for Christmas lights is really similar to our sign for Christmas decorations
That's so interesting
So now obviously we don't use the word Santa, we just use Father Christmas
But really interesting that yet again it's all about the beard
Beard and the belly
Well yeah that's a pretty descriptive sign
so it's the same
And again since snow is the same we are just using our different signs for man
Because apparently in England men all have beards
Interestingly ASL has two hands which makes a lot more sense because why ours are one eared?
Again pretty descriptive what's the most important part of a reindeer?
I really like the ASL sign for peace, ours is more about quiet, peace and quiet
But also peace and good will to all men etc etc
Whereas theirs seems to be more about coming togehter
Which I really like
Our mistletoe involves pretty similar actually to our 'cherry'
But up here so you know it's about kissing
Wow theirs is completely different
That was not what I was expecting
I was expecting a box or the action of giving
So that's really interesting to see
Ah... moving along similar lines there
Very similar to ours for bird or chicken
But we went full out with the flesh under here
Saggy bit of skin
It's kind of a difficult sign to show you in this frame right here because you gotta move up from your leg
Stocking
Although that seems really like a different kind of stocking
You still put presents in it
Wow another completely different sign
My goodness
Is so interesting seeing the differences between
BSL and ASL
And I have to say I fully respect anyone who can do both of these languages because they are so different
but at the same time the words are the same
I am actually really interested to know different ASL sings for other thigns
Maybe like countries, or colours even
I feel like we should make that video, make it happen
I hope you've enjoyed learning about how different sign languages can be
Even when they come from the same mother tongue
For more ASL, deaf life and generally awesome videos that I am such a fan of and I watch a lot
you should definitely go and check out Rikki's channel
I'm going to leave the link down in the description and of course at the end of this video her little face will pop up
And now I am off to lunch to one of my favourite places in Brighton
Yeah!
I don't tend to leave the house as much during the week so is very exciting for me
And I'm very excited to see Oliver
and thank you so much Rikki for sending me the ASL versions of everything
Taxi Driver: Is £82
J: That's amazing
T: It's the same to run this car for 6 months than my diesel car for one week
J: Well I'm sold, clearly the next car is an electric car
This is Oliver, he makes amazing cinematic short films about life and disability
We were very very excited about the dancing figures
O: Massive reindeers on her garden
J: What?
O: Yeah
J: Your mother sounds amazing and she should be my friend
O: Do you speak any Swedish?
J: Only the Swedish that relates to Christmas
We just had a lovely time with Oliver didn't we?
Yes, is Oliver your new best friend Tills?
I think he might be
But now Julia and Sam are going to come over, that's my sinter-in-law and brother-in-law
I swear we talked about them..
The baby shower!
Yes, Julia who is going to have a baby, our little niece or nephew yay!
Is very exciting, they are gonna come over and we are going to cook roasted duck
I think I'm going to change because this dress is ver lovely but also
I'm not going to say restrictive because I like restrictive dresses
But I want to eat a lot of duck
and I already ate a lot of lunch
and I might need a slightly larger dress now
Damn that was a good lunch
Come here!
Ah...
Fine!
Me and Tilly will have a little roll around
Hello I am now very pink
We are cooking a duck
Because Claudia's sister is coming over for dinner along with her husband who is not eating duck because he is vegetarian
No, pescatarian, he eats fish
Uhhh
C: You just came at the right time
J: Our she is going to show off her oven function
C: Look at this!
J: Oh My Gosh
Woah!
C: This is what we got to go with the duck
Loads of nice roasted erm... pumpkin, carrots and sweet potato