Jonathan Coulton’s “The Future Soon” in a mix of ASL and signed English. Thanks to the fans for all your requests! I’ve got more coming, hopefully every Sunday. Keep an eye out! Last week I left a note on Lauras desk LAST WEEK, LAURA DESK NOTE [PLACE-THERE] It said I love you signed anonymous friend QUOTE LOVE-YOU FROM SECRET FRIEND Turns out shes smarter than I thought she was SHE SMART-ER, FIGURE NOTE OUT She knows I wrote it, now the whole class does too SHE KNOWS NOTE MINE, SHE TELL CLASS And Im alone during couple skate NIGHT SKATE I ALONE When she skates by with some guy on her arm SEE-HER SKATE-BY, WITH MAN WHAT? But I know that Ill forget the look of pity in her face I FUTURE FORGET, SHE-PITY-ME When Im living in my solar dome on a platform in space WHEN LIVE IN DOME [in-space] Cause its gonna be the future soon FUTURE ARRIVE SOON And I wont always be this way I NOT ALWAYS STAY SAME When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away MY WEAK, STRANGE ENGINEER-[MELT AWAY] Its gonna be the future soon FUTURE ARRIVE SOON Ive never seen it quite so clear SEE [ahead] GOOD And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and its already here DURING HEART-BREAK I SHUT-EYES, FUTURE HERE Ill probably be some kind of scientist I BECOME SCIENTIST Building inventions in my space lab in space CREATE BUILD++ IN MY STARS {LAB} Ill end world hunger Ill make dolphins speak WORLD I-FEED-IT, DOLPHINS TEACH-THEM TALK Work through the daytime, spend my nights and ….
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Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. And the combination of facial expressions and emotive signing made me laugh harder than I have in a long while. It’s always a pleasure to see someone having as much fun making a video as his viewers do watching it. 😀
Outstanding work, young man. Well done.
The “Ask a Ninja” shirt is just a bonus! This young man is amazing.
Ok, this is seriously awesome! I love that you have put up ASL videos for JoCo’s songs. This and RE: Your Brains are both fantastic!
amazing!.. and cute too.. 😉
@ShhhhhItsasecret
Yes he is.
@CleansWithRag You didn’t. I didn’t mean to come off as rude xD. It’s a bad habit. But you have to admit he’s very good at it, no?
@ShhhhhItsasecret
I know that… I meant it’s not supposed to be mind blowing.
It was a poor choice of words.
I’m sorry if I offended you in any way.
@untraceablekiss
Ewitteborg and Zephyreros are both native signers, whereas Stephen is a “NERD” (not even related to Deaf) who has only been signing for a few years. And even without taking that into account, I think he’s pretty damn good.
Besides, no one else ‘terps JoCo songs.
@CleansWithRag Wrong sign language
is an amazing language. And it takes a lot
of hard word and dedication to learn it.
It’s SIGN LANGUAGE! It’s not supposed to be amazing or awesome or anything.
How many times have I watched this and only *now* recognized the shirt? Ditto to InvaderKylie and chexee. FTW!
Are the captions in parentheses things which are shown through gestures, but not technically signs?
I don’t see why people say he isn’t good. I think he’s amazing. Keep it up! 😀
Dude this guy isn’t even that good. Check out ewitteborg or zephyreros. THAT is talent.
These videos are so awesome. I’m grateful for the captions, btw.
Done Code Monkey yet? Curious to see how that one turns out.
you have an ask a ninja shirt TOO? I correct myself you just got 10000000x more awesome ;D
Dude yes >D
Your ASL videos are just plain awesome.
you’re so geeky it’s adorable 🙂
Wow, I found the repost of this first. If I hadn’t seen the author name protesting in comment I wouldn’t have known the other channel was fake. Fucking reposters. Anyway, I think it’s great what you do and deaf nerds need love too. Way to go lol
So adorable <3
He doesn’t spell that way, it is the literal translation, from sign to English.
Very well done 🙂
had to make an account and subscribe lol
oh my goodness i love you.
you really made me want to make one of these myself. (not that it will be anything close..) thank you so much!
a big part of sign langauage is the facial expressions. its how you can tell the difference between say…being tired and being REALLY tired. also the same sign can have different meanings with different facial expressions.