I just started to learn signing a few months ago and am watching all these videos but I still cannot understand half of what I see…for this one I pretty much got all of it except the punchline! Will someone please interpret this?
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The deaf guy is in a car accident and gets rushed to the hospital by ambulance. AS he’s lying on the gurney, the Dr. writes to him “Are you ok”? he writes back “Funny Zero”. The Dr. writes back “I don’t understand” The deaf guy writes back “Call for an interpreter”. The Dr. pantomimes that he’ll look for an interpreter. All the hospital staff convene to try to solve the problem. It takes them 2 days just to find an interpreter who is in training. Meanwhile the guy has been laying there in the hospital. The trainee interpreter doesn’t understand the written “Funny Zero” either. So she asks him and he signs it which as an appropriate translation would be “This is very serious”. She tells the Dr. he’s in very serious pain. So all the hospital is in a flurry because he’s been in terrible pain for 2 days. The poor deaf guy has been in pain for 2 entire days while they look for an intepreter – that’s REALLY NOT FUNNY! is the punch line. it’s more of a funny story about a communication breakdown than a joke with a real “punch line” per se. The joke is in the signs. The signs “Funny” and “Zero” which he wrote a literal transcription of to the Dr. in combination can mean “This is a very serious situation” or “This isn’t funny at all”.