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  3. I love it…I haven’t seen anything yet that I don’t like from Keith!!! You are awesomeeeee!!!

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  6. Wow! Keith, I have only seen you in comedy also. At first I was waiting for the punch line, then I realized you were being serious. I like it. You are a wonderful artist and your ASL is wonderful. Thank you for sharing.

  7. I love watching you speak sign to the hearing…thank you for all you do! You’re the best!!!!!!

    Thanks again for your postings! Keep up the awesome work!!!!

  10. I think it is awesome that you stepped away from your “comedic” personality, and were so serious doing this song. I wasn’t sure how it would be, because I’ve only seen your comedy (which I adore), but this was amazing.

    To HMENKIS–My ASL teacher is also Deaf, and she mouths what she’s saying sometimes. I don’t understand what the issue is, and it maybe because I was not born into the Deaf World, but I’ve never had any problem thinking of her as Deaf, nor do I think she wants to be hearing.

  13. Heafie is a negative connotation labeled on a deaf person who tries to act or passes oneself off as a hearing person.

  15. Hi hmenkis, or any other person who happens to know, I was just wondering, if you’d be so kind as to tell me, what exactly the term “heafie” means? I’m imagining it’s a negative term, something like ‘hearing’-‘deafie’ like a reversal of the sign “think-hearing”? Honestly I have no idea, I’ve never heard the term before. Thanks in advance to anyone who answers 🙂

  16. Keith Wann is obviously not perfect. He is a comedian and an entertainer. But for me many of the things he does in this song show the pure beauty of ASL and when I just showed it to some hearing people who had never been exposed to sign language before they agreed.

    That simple act of obtaining respect for ASL from 2 people who had never seen it before makes any fault in his signing insignificant.

    You are great. Keep it up.

  17. Ok I have a great Idea!!! Could you someday when I get married…interpret this song at my wedding (during the 1st dance) That way my mom can hear the song too! I don’t think anyone could interpret it like you!!! And I would love to meet you! CODA UNTIED HA!!!

  18. i love how you show putting your heart in the other persons hand at 1:58 and it looks like it’s beating. hehe clever!

  19. The only English words I noticed him mouthing was, “I love you.” I don’t think it takes anything away from the song or the signing. It’s a song about love.

  20. There is a saying that ” We see the world the way we are.
    We do not see the world the way it is” so this is where we “part company”.

  21. Thank you for your polite comment. I continue to disagree with you. Knowing ASL, even having a Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics is in no manner a qualification as an INTERPRETER. You may even be a CDI, yet interpreting from the English language or any other into ASL is not a feat accomplished by having a degree in the target language, but being qualified in the source one. So trust me when I say as a native speaker with a netural and tricultural perspective that he did a wonderful job.

  22. I respectfully disagree with you. If he is indeed using morphemes as you asserted, then he is using the wrong morphemes. I know, I am DEAF and I am a retired Professor Emeritus and I have 2 Master’s degrees in teaching ASL and Applied Linguistics and native asl user since age 2. You sound like a “heafie” to me … But like I said eariler I thought his sign “singing” was wonderful and it may be wonderful for people like you, but certainly not for deafies like me ..

  23. He’s not “mouthing” English words. He’s using morphemes which are characteristic of the signs he is executing. I know, I’m a hard-of-hearing interpreter and CODA. He’s amazing! A billion kudos Keith!

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