The official Los Angeles sign language interpreter is a STAR!

Honey, she is serving us hot, Ballroom vogue cunt.

She’s making them all sound sarcastic. Is she having a bad week?

that was HILARIOUS. she's probably the funniest friend in anyone's friend group.

It makes sense for an ASL interpreter in Los Angeles to be a good actress.

Love her! She's all like "y'all muthafuckas believe the shit these bitches be sayin' up in hurrr?"

Rofl... I didn't know that ASL could be done in Ebonics!

Bitch is being very EXTRA!

Her signing reminds me a lot of the Marlo and Sheree fight on RHOA.

Hahahaha.

Love the way she just moved over and didn't miss a beat, just kept on doing her exaggerated facial expressions in time to the signing. There should be an awards show for this. I guarantee this would be much more entertaining than any other awards show.

My favorite part is midway, when she glides over to the other speaker, like she’s on a hoverboard.

She's right up there with the one Gretchen Whitmer uses.

Gretchen Whitmer's SL interpreter is doing some ACTING, honey!

The exaggerated facial expressions are typical and are a big part of the communication, though it looks odd to us. I guess it is similar to our vocal sound expression, pace, etc all that add meaning to the words.

They embrace the DRAMA!

Why do we need sign language interpreters when there is closed or open captioning available? Are there that many deaf people who are either blind or can't read?

Her name is Rorri Burton. Angelenos got to know her during all the COVID-briefings. R15, that's explained in the segment below.

They used to not make all the dramatic facial expressions, but they found that deaf people understand tone better when facial expressions convey it.

They ARE stars for the work that they do.

I would love to see a film about the ultra-competitive, cutthroat world of sign language interpreting — or even a reality show.

[quote] Why do we need sign language interpreters when there is closed or open captioning available? Are there that many deaf people who are either blind….?

I know I’ve said stuff this stupid, but I don’t think I’ve ever taken the time to type something out and not realized it.

Going off on a tangent here...

She's flawless.

This was actually a little scary that it even happened.

It looks like she’s re-enacting a bunch of Prince memes.

I think you just wrote the treatment for Christopher Guest's next mockumentary, R19

It’s like sign language with a blaccent. Incredible!

Lawd! You know black people always got to put a little extra uumphh into it 😂 I love her. I just hope she is really speaking American Sign Language or some official one. I know y’all memba Mandela’s funeral.

[quote] I would love to see a film about the ultra-competitive, cutthroat world of sign language interpreting — or even a reality show.

That would be pretty fun. It's probably hard to get the high-profile gigs working for government agencies at a big conference or corporate type events.

So, she's really signing and not just making crap up?

They communicate through facial expressions. When you can't hear, that's how you communicate. Hands and emotional exaggerated facial gestures.

Bitch also won some serious coin on a game show.

I prefer Garrett Morris.

Sorry OP I'd fire her for being disrespectful on the job & for being too distracting.

Do her signals come out as Ebonics?

R34 Already covered at R6

These women keep being exposed as frauds.

Bethany James is the interpreter who interprets a lot of Gretchen Whitmer's press conferences and she also interprets for Jocelyn Benson and Dana Nessel. Years back, there was a trial in Michigan in which one of the jurors was deaf and Bethany was one of the interpreters who interpreted for the juror in court.