ASL

The instructor for my ASL course (American Sign Language) lectured on deaf culture and history last night. We had an interpreter for the first time. I realized how much I miss & take for granted being able to ask questions regularly - as in other classes with hearing teachers. This does make me ponder all my questions even more. The lecture was very good & I'm looking forward to the next one.

I asked him about the TTY (teletypewriter) and mentioned that I've used RTTY (radio teletype) at work. They use the same 5-bit Baudot code (as opposed to 8-bit ASCII).

Neat page on TTY etiquette at http://wally.rit.edu/depts/ref/research/deaf/ttyuse.html