Sign-language interpreter criticized for police press conference performance
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Police in Tampa, Florida, are conducting a review following criticism of a sign-language interpreter's performance at a high-profile press conference. An expert says the interpreter was signing gibberish while standing next to officials announcing the arrest of a suspected serial killer. Watch Derlyn Roberts sign at the Nov. 28 press conference.
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Police: the victim was murdered
Her: hits the woah
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Aruesx 😂😂😂😂😂😂
What’s even crazier is that’s actually the way you sign it in asl
The fact that she didn't get paid for this and just did it to troll has me so weak 💀💀
God bless people who troll like this. Love her.
I don't think she did it to troll. I think she just did it to feel special.
You get what you paid for.
@@rred8674 It's funny, but she has been arrested for fraud multiple times so she isn't a very good person.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
When you lie in your resume and get the job anyway.
LiveNAWSTY thanks for stealing my joke troll
LiveNAWSTY 😂😂😂 ikr
LiveNAWSTY 😂
Im 25 and ive gotten so many jobs lying about expirience lol
Lol
Anyone else find this absolutely hilarious? I can’t stop laughing.
DK 124 this is the funniest chit I seen in a minute I can't stop laughing made my Day
Lupe Reyes when I found out no one requested a interpreter, that was icing on the cake. She just showed up and did her thang. Lmao
Fake sign language interpretation is one of the all-time funniest gags IMO. Remember this guy? /watch?v=culxN0juHvI
DK 124 lmao 😂
Lmao where they do that at??
She is not signing complete gibberish; however, her level of signing is not high enough to interpret this particular news conference.
Tatally agree she just needs more practice.
czcams.com/video/culxN0juHvI/video.html Anything bad to say about him? He is clearly not signing anything but gibberish.
She’s singing jibberish. She is a criminal who’s been arrested 6 times for fraud 😂😂😂
Corgi ZacRalNase is it complete nonsense though, like, when he said my glass is half full, and she signed " glasses, as in eye glasses. Lol, I'm sure that can't be right
I can read some sign (also sign myself)..and some of her words are actually correct. She is doing a direct (word) translation in some places instead of using the true ASL form and structure. I feel like she has the kindergarten level ability to sign..but tried to do it at a college level. So she got some wrong..faked some..and mixed up homonyms. So maybe she is a criminal in her every day life..but in this case, she wasn’t a total fraud. Just sayin.
The fact that she remembered some signs for words that was repeated 😭
RIGHT THATS WHAT IM SAYING IT TAKES SKILL
IKR
Just the number 4
"... That we were gonna get a break" the fact she did her arms like she was breaking a stick or something lmfao 😂
Lol
Well that’s the sign for break in sign language so..
Well in sign language people that are deaf or hard of hearing use their the visual understanding to communicate with others, a lot of signs if you pay attention are similar too what things look like irl
She the biggest troll in America... this will go down in history! Lol 😂
Bruh
Deaf people wondering why she’s acting the entire bee movie script
LMAO😭
Lol
Handcuffs took me out!!!!! hahahhaha
Maja Cho - I can't even look at my duty carry handcuffs again without laughing uncontrollably. I know it's wrong.
Me 2. I was dying when she did that
It look like she was putting on some bracelets
Same here I am weak
Around:40-45s
When he said glass is half full and she signed eye glasses 😂😂
She didn't sign "eyeglasses" , she has no idea what she's doing, this is all because of affirmative action.
Ryan Smith You do know she volunteer and wasn’t paid at all.
she belongs in a looney bin
I noticed that
I think she signed glasses full
soda pop.
How many of the people commenting here even know ASL? I can tell you, as an ASL/English interpreter, she may not be the best interpreter but she is certainly not a “fake” interpreter.
Well, she isn't producing ASL. She's using ASL vocabulary, and she's using it appropriately, but she isn't applying any grammar or syntax of the language. The result isn't ASL, PSE, or SEE. It's a bunch of disjointed and unconnected signs and concepts. On it's own, it does't make sense and gives virtually no real information.
She clearly has experience with ASL, and under low-pressure circumstances is possibly conversationally fluent, but fluency does not an interpreter make. She is following WAY too closely to properly process what is being said. Virtually no processing time leaves no room to rework sentences into proper ASL sentence structure, so she often backs herself into a corner where she has to resort to English word-order. Not to mention that following so close with no processing time means a lot of information gets lost as she tries to process at high speed, so entire chunks of information are being dropped. Something we are privileged to as hearing people, but something a Deaf client would be unaware of. I would be very surprised if she has more than a scant amount of interpreting experience.
Source: I've been signing for 10 years, am in an ASL Interpretation Bachelor's program, and just finished my second semester of ASL/English comparative linguistics.
Moxie McRawr Finally an informed critique! Thank you.
Daniel Greene ....My husband is profoundly deaf, and I could understand her. People who don't know sign language will be the first to bash her.
I'm an interpreter. She's not interpreting. She is also signing several things wrong. She is producing words here and there that match the words he is saying. That's like listening to a Spanish conversation and tossing out the vocab you understand once in a while. Banana! 21! Gun! Work! They might be the right but they don;t make a sentence or an interpretation. She keeps signing "before" for "Later" its frustrating. Ans not funny.
@DancerInside xoxo If you have been taking ASL for five years, you should know "proper structure" its called grammar...English has it, Chinese has it and so does ASL!
Can't be too fake. Seems like she has some kind of consistency with words
She's using the correct vocabulary, but there is virtually no grammar or syntax applied. She's signing word-sign translations as she hears them, but is not making sure the concepts are coherent and connected. Its very disjointed and doesn't make sense
She is actually doing it correctly but improvising in words she doesn’t know
It reflects a type of high intelligence proper - non-analytical, but purely associative. She is inventing analogies that are consistent on the fly reflecting a brain that does a lot subconscious footwork.
Yea i see is signing somestuff correctly and missing few things here and there making it not proper vocab
@@RavenBells then explain why she was arrested for fraud
She deserves an award for this performance. I can't help but find her funny. It's too bad she did this in relation to such a serious and sad subject.
This woman is comedy gold🤣😂...
Huh
@@yoharis_c she means she is funny
To the untrained eye she appears legit! 😂🤣😅
To the trained eyes she is a disgrace?
I'm a high school ASL 1 student. This is probably how I would interpret this. A professional should not be comparable to a high schooler
Lol in some careers buddy. Don't think this way for your whole life.
Idk what the big thing is. Like yeah she wasn't perfect but I have been interpreting asl for 5 years and she did almost the exact same way that I would have done. She only missed a few words. But that's hardly a reason to believe she was a fake. If I didn't know any better, I'd said she did an ok job
I love how she used the same fake sign for “murdered”
I'm laughing so hard I'm crying
Brittany Anne yes it is fake it’s on inside edition how would you even know
For those who are wondering if she is signing complete gibberish, she is not. She is not just waving her hands around and creating her own signs. She was actually using signs that are in ASL, really basic beginner words like “day”, “night”, “please”, “say”, “community “ etc. Even her signs for numbers like “6” and “8” are correct, as these numbers are shown very differently by hearing people compared to in ASL. I can tell that she has very basic knowledge of ASL, but just not enough to thoroughly convey a message. She even knows to fingerspell names when they were mentioned, although her alphabets were complete gibberish, a person with no knowledge of ASL would not know that. To describe what her signing is like to people who dont know ASL, i would compare her to speaking like a toddler. She is not making full sentences, she is just signing a few words pulled out from the actual message. ASL is not just about moving hands, it is also facial expression and body language. Her facial expression and body language does not really convey much but the fact that she is thinking “what’s the sign for that..?” So yes, she is in fact using actual signs but she is just not using them fluently and accurately. She is just not qualified enough for this role. But if there is anything to take away from this, I appreciate that she has the very basic knowledge for ASL, almost enough to communicate with a deaf person. Many people may laugh at her, but how many of you can actually communicate with the hearing impaired?
That was just my question.. I hv very basic knowledge of ASL. I thought she was not completely unknowledgeable. I see she was trying a bit. Should she be jailed is the question?
Thank you for this comment. I was under the impression she was pranking them. Your comment puts it in a different light. Maybe she was actually trying to do the translation, just not fluent yet.
@@onelovelybe No she should not be jailed
Thank you for breaking it down
What a stupid defense for this woman. Sure, she's not actually giving information to anybody, but how many of you can do basic signs for the deaf? You turned it into a weird guilt trip.
Who else watching this 5 years later and still laughing so hard 😂😂😂
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Mwah lol
2:53 THE GOODNIGHT SLEEP ALWAYS HAS ME ROLLING
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I CLICKED ON THE TIMESTAMP AND WAS CAUGHT SO OFF GUARD
Everybody says she signing well because u can hear what the guy is saying so it makes sense somewhat with the signs she’s making...but imagine not being able to hear what he sayin and totally relying on her signs
YeahImFloatin MUTE THE VIDEO!
Okay but that only works if you’re fluent in ASL, you shouldn’t be able to understand what she’s saying if you’re only an English speaker (and yes I think she’s doing a poor job but we have to be careful not to spread the idea that ASL is a purely gestural language)
As a student in a sign language interpreter prep program this makes me laugh. Some of her signs are correct, but she doesn't know the grammar structure or syntax of ASL. For example, when the officer says, "Two weeks ago, 60 year old Ronald Felton was murdered," what she signed was roughly equivalent to saying "Two weeks ago Ronald Felton killed..." (She didn't even really fingerspell his name right, it was roughly the equivalent of doing this: Rfjknsnfjjnngfkn, but I left in his name for clarity).The English sentence the officer used was passive voice, which can be difficult to interpret in ASL. So with her interpretation she literally signed that all the people who were murdered were actually the ones killing.
This is what happens when people think taking a few ASL classes turns them into a qualified interpreter.
Thank you for pointing out, generally speaking, what she was doing in such clarity. If her performance didn't match objective expectations of reasonable excellence she shouldn't have been up there. Word-for-Word. True in Shakespearean time as it is in our time.
I laughed so hard reading this.
@@serenityriley641 Sid or O Kap's
@@okapmeinkap7311 Reasonable excellence? She would be overjoyed to get medicority.
@@chukwudiilozue9171 medicority?
2:22 When he says “My glass is half empty” she makes circles around her eyes like she’s saying glasses 😂
1:06 , she ran out of ideas 😂
I was ok untill she did the superman pose at 3:43 😂😂😂
Lmaooooooo
I’m really impressed how she could just do those moves and improvise so fast like that
SUMMER. 42 Years ago Uwu It’s not all improv. Most of her signs are actually correct. However throughout the speech she skips over a lot of words and uses incorrect grammar.
She up there throwing up gang signs!!! 🤭😂🤣🤏✌🤘🤙🖖👉👌
she is using a lot of signs that match the English word, but not the ASL meaning. for example cop says "we got a break" she used the sign for something is broken. she should have signed "we finally had an "opportunity" .. when you interpret it is the interpreters responsibility to "faithfully convey" the meaning. using English doesn't do that... she wasn't awful... but she was in over her head...
@my mind and body
It's the time we live in now. People pay no attention to detail and their attention span is very short. It's easier for them to accuse others of sexual harassment or being a racist because they're too lazy to put things into context and interpret things correctly. So play along... She's a fake.
Both my parents are deaf, and work as educators of the deaf. IMHO, she's butchering it to high heaven. Anyone watching her signs would have no clue what the speakers are saying.
linearconcepts haha, what IS she actually saying
I know a little bit of sign and i find this absolutely hilarious
Is she saying anything?
Barely. Her fingerspelling is horrific. When he said 51 days ago, it looked like she signed 51 hours ago. 51 was turned the wrong way. He said October 11th and she signed the 12th. She wasn't even fingerspelling anything. She just moved her fingers like an idiot. Her numbers were wrong. She signed 24 and 26 wrong. It would take forever to tell you all of her mistakes so I'll just say this. ALL OF IT WAS WRONG. She didn't sign one thing right.
Lexie Nicola 😂😂😂
That finger flick she does with her right hand constantly lmao
xCaptxCrunchx she's fingerspelling the people's names
She’s not spelling anything at all. That’s the gibberish. Just flicking her fingers instead signing each letter.
Stephanie Harlan I studied ASL but my receptive skills when it comes to fingerspelling are not the strongest, so I didn't even try to catch the names at first. I watched it again at a slower speed and you're right, it's total gibberish. The rest of her signing seemed ok to me at first, but the more I watch it the more problems I see, like "glasses half full". She just does not have the skill level needed to interpret official police business.
The guy behind left looks like a Kenan Thompson character from SNL.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely
Yes,yes he does !
facts lmmfao this is the best comment!!
😂😂😂😂
She is signing a lot of the right stuff it’s just like when he said “pleased to” and she signed “please” like she was to say “can you please...” although her signing is very level one, she is not just making up signs she just isn’t a real interpreter 😂
I can't stop laughing. She made my night.
This lady is amazing.
It just looks so outrageous but so hilarious at the same time
Damn you don't need to be an expert freaking hilarious.
101spacecase I'm rolling I can't stop laughing
lolol
Actually, you do need to be an expert.
I couldn’t have done it better myself
I HOLLERED!!!!...you hear me!!!!!! She took me OUT!!!!! 😩😩😩😩😩😂😂😂😂😂😂
Screaming,😭😭😭😭😭
EmmanuelPierrePortraits I CAN'T BREATHE
EmmanuelPierrePortraits lol
Do you actually know any ASL?
The thing she did to her wrists when he said "arrests" at 0:42 LMFAOOOOOOO
😂😂😂😂she irkn
Hey, I actually tried to "fake it" right now as I was watching her do it, and man, making it look smooth (whether she was right or wrong, it flowed pretty damn well) is A LOT harder than you'd think! Go ahead and try it! I'll bet you can't even fake looking good at it! (remember, me too, just sayin' LOL!)... :)
Felix Culpa I kind of agree. I'm currently learning sign language and it's not easy. I still get the signs and/or hand motions wrong sometimes
Agree
That’s because she knows basic sign language, she translated most of what he said correctly
Are you watching it in x2 speed on default like I do?
Im impressed she didnt forget some things and repeated them at the proper time lol
She signed right but some of the words would make no since to the deaf bc they have different vocabulary for example we hear “I am pleased to..” she actually signed “please” like for example “can I please have pizza” but for asl she should have signed “happy” like “I am happy to know..” I hope this makes sense
"I am pleased to announce..." she actually signed "please" and not "happy" that's when I lost it xD
Yeah, she was definitely going all in on the homophones. "Break" was another one that comes to mind.
I wouldn’t call it complete “gibberish”, but definitely not a good interpretation. (I am a certified interpreter with 39 years experience.)
When you didn’t do your homework, but the teacher asks you to do the problem anyway.
2:26 she signs “my glasses some empty” 😂
Living her absolute best life. No hate for this lady, shes my inspiration.
You should come sit on my face and let me eat My way to your heart
She was actually dancing to the song "BEAT IT "...
Lol
2:08 break 😂😂😂
Can I just say how proud I am of the people in the comments section not bringing up race?
BLACK
umm..you just did
Irony, you're the one who brought it up.
You just broke it XD
OML ALL THESE COMMENTS CRACKING ME UP
she actually knew a couple signs, but other than that this is hilarious lol
We just watched all the seasons.
0:30 for “60 years old” she did the long Asian beard. lmao
Somebody give this woman a show!!!
2:54 my mans is just watching her try
1:44 why it look like she silently rapping 😂😂😂😂
I still can’t get over the fact that she got up there and did this.
Peter Griffin: eh this is almost as bad as that time I landed that sign language interpreter job...
*plays this clip*
The student that studies the night before and still scores higher than you, the student who studies everyday, on the final.
she saw that ad on craiglist and wathced a couple youtube videos and showed uo and gave it her damn best
She's got potential, fine her some classes and she'll do fine. I'm curious how she learned as much as she did.
🐝...
i don't know sign language but
i understood everything she said
😂😂😂😂
Lmao she said Christ when pose said police officer rofl
Deaf people: confused
This lady: 💁🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🙅🏾♀️🙇🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️🙎🏾♀️🙆🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️
0:10 sis rly hit the woah
It’s like she was just sitting at home eating ice cream and this idea came to mind.
She's a genius
if you are stressed watch this it will help alot
This lady was definitely ahead of her time. 🤣🤣
She just did the same thing AND DID I JUST SEE HER SAY CALL? HE DID NOT EVEN TALK ABOUT A CALL?
I did time with her..lmao! Wow
Shirlene Joseph she throwed off or what?
Does she really know asl
Well you now know someone famous 😂😂
Gang gang
C'est Σ she been to jail 6 times before this. She didn’t go to jail for this
People in the comments asking "whats wrong" didn't even attempt to find out. Read the description you dummies.
I wouldn’t be able to do this without laughing 😭😂😂
I couldn’t even stand there and watch that happen without laughing lol 😂
I can’t stop laughing at the fact that her left hand is mostly always horizontal and she barely moves it 😂
That’s true in a lot of real asl. There’s a thing called dominant and non dominant hand. Her left hand is non dominant so it stays put for most signs. She’s still bad at asl, but she’s not a complete fraud. She took at least a few classes
I’m laughing 0:52 “our detectives are currently working on the charging documents” she signs “working school working”
She made me cry from laughing 😂
Deaf people : “Aliens are eating pizza with the Terminator and volcanoes are going up people’s house for insurance…what?”
Pause at 2:09 her face is freaking hilarious, I can’t stop laughing 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
this cracks me up every time it happens lolol...haaaaaaaaaa lolol
3:13 screaming lollmaooooo 😭😁
I’m sorry this is just so funny 😂😂😂😂
2:22 she heard "glass is half full" as "glasses" 🤣
Okay as a deaf person I can say that she DEFINITELY needs some work such as fingerspelling and placement of words but over all she was totally understandable
She is doing a lot of correct signs
Define "a lot".
This is so wrong and so hilarious at the same time 😂😂😂. The audacity of it all
She’s got balls to sign rubbish while working for the police department ... while she has many previous changes haha
She signed a lot of PSE rather than ASL, but she was doing her best it seems. ASL interpreting is a very hard job. Ease up on this lady please
my mind and body she didn’t hurt nobody. Just a couple laughs. Plus if she didn’t interpret, no one else was there to do it. No harm done. If she was getting paid then that would be another story. You can bring up ethics, but we should look harsher at the police department that didn’t see the need to hire anyone to sign.
my mind and body it’s not her responsibility to call anyone. Shy was there trying to help. It could have hurt some one if they were not given the right info? Bro, it was her or no one. They weren’t gonna get the info regardless. Why are you harsher on her rather than them?
my mind and body I never said she helped, I said she tried to help. None the less, they weren’t getting the information regardless. There was no harm done. Ps 2 of the best mechanics I ever met never went to school, at all! Immigrated to the USA young and worked their entire lives. They learned mechanic work in the streets. One ended up in ford and Chevrolet dealership, while the other one managed to become pretty wealthy off it as a street mechanic after being arrested and serving time. Your degrees don’t mean anything. How many times are you willing to fail to succeed? That’s what matters. And that’s what she did... not everyone has the privilege to go to college like other people
my mind and body why is she not in jail? Ummm, oh yeah because she didn’t break the law. She was trying to help. She was not paid. Here, take this for instance, if you witness someone dying and you were not cpr certified, are you not gonna at least try to help? Even if the person dies, you are not at fault because you tried to save a life at all cost. There is no harm done. It’s either you or no one. Any idiot can save my life if I’m dying, no matter how inexperienced he\she might be, if there is no professional around, I want them to try. End of story... or think about it like this, if you’re dying, would you want everyone to rush to help you? Or rather them stand still watch you and call 911 and wait 15 min for them to come?
Nope, Deaf individuals have a right to a qualified interpreter. This was a random woman who walked in off the street and they just let her go ahead and do it.
I couldn’t have done it better myself
Her face at 2:08 though 😂😂😂
People that doesn’t that doesn’t know sign language was thinking she was great and one of them was me 😂🤣
Not gonna lie, her gestures somewhat were relatable to the verbalize statements, it made sense.
Idc this is so funny. I need this confidence. She fully went on television
She's the Ms. Cleo of ASL!
I like thinking of it as if they hired a mime to come along and make it a little more entertaining
She’s a legend 😂
The lady’s got hustle I’ll give her that…
2:20
this improv tho
Deaf ppl :confused
This Lady:🧏🏽♀️🙆🏽♀️💁🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🙅🏽♀️🙍🏽♀️
😂😂
fun fact: she’s actually signing the words he’s saying, but not as accurately as a trained interpreter would. i feel like she knows some sign, but not nearly enough to interpret at this level. then again, i guess they got more than they paid for considering she wasn’t even paid and just volunteered. i’m only an ASL 1 student tho, so if anyone wants to say more on this, go ahead.
You mean to tell me,no.one even checked to see if this woman was a professional,lol