Here is your Wednesday antidote to everything annoying on the Internet (meaning everyone being unable to shut up about Tim Tebow, AGAIN): a completely adorable video of a deaf college student, Stephon, signing "I am proud of you" to Barack Obama and the President signing "thank you" in response without missing a beat. TAKE THAT, kittens with your heads stuck in a plastic cup. From the the student's account of the exchange via a transcript on Distriction:
The moment I will never forget was when he looked at me. He gave me a chance to talk to him. It was like he was waiting for me to say something. I took the moment and signed “I am proud of you,” and his response was “Thank u” in sign language back! Oh my gosh! I was like wow! He understood me after I said I was proud of him. It was so amazing…I was just speechless. Right after he thanked me, he smiled at another deaf lady who signed “I love you.”
Mind-numbingly sweet video, after the jump!
This has been Your Day in Rainbows and Obama Being Rad. [YouTube/ Distriction]
Interesting! Thank you. I thought it would be universal - like the Plains Indian sign language that permitted various tribes to communicate quite easily.
Agreed, Frothy, we will always be the generation that saw the equivalent of the first Jewish pope. (I am sure somebody will cite my ignorance, but it is late)