Comment on another post of mine:
This is Elaine Moore and I am deaf hard of hearing. I want tell yu something about drugs bad your health because drug is hard for your life can’t use drug then please try resist away from drug that why you had lot pain away from drug and how you feel . Do you have plan your future. I never haven’t use drug and alcohol all my life because drug and alcohol waste time mess up my body. Yu better carefully killed from drug.
She’s totally lying. She’s loaded dude!
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Bat country.
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It *could* be sign-language grammar…
or it could just be gibberish.
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Yeah, the language part may be affected by ASL. The whole phenomenon of Elaine, however, is unique.
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please try resist away from drug
I have a deaf friend, and when she writes, it’s a little off, kind of like an accent. It isn’t, however, freaking indecipherable the way this is.
Drugs are bad, mmmmkay?
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There’s no way of knowing for sure if she is really deaf. I do know that English is often a second language for an ASL user. And, someone who hasn’t spent much time on English might well use such a syntax.
I’m going to pass it by a deaf person and see what she thinks.
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I’ve seen similar language from ASL native speakers, yeah. It was the whole package that was overwhelming.
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That why you had lot pain Conrad, duh.
I love your anonymous (?) comments!
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hahaha okay YOU thought it was weird..
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Yu better carefully killed from drug.
motto!
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YU KNOW IT
((c) blue grape merchandising — hope i don’t get TEH SUED)
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Drugs are your friends! 😀 😀
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Better carefully killed than to die all willy nilly, I’ve always said.
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DEA website Markov chain!
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That would be the anon comment I just got on a totally different post, and which I shall now quote in its entirety: ” Subject: Promorion presend:ultracet pain management ultracet”
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Your Grampa Simpson story icon is brilliant, and oddly hypnotic.
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Her first language is definitely ASL; I recognise some of the syntax. Given that, I’m not surprised that she’s hardcore drug/alcohol free — most Deaf people are hardline Xtians.
Nonetheless, a weird comment.
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Yeah- that was my thought too. ASL doesn’t have very many grammatical functions, so they must seem pretty weird/irrelevant to a speaker of ASL.
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Yu better carefully killed from drug. Resist away from drug for great future. You have no chance to survive make your time. All your drug are belong to us.
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That was very helpful. THank you.
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