{"id":11491,"date":"2016-02-17T07:09:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T06:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/?p=11491"},"modified":"2016-02-17T07:09:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T06:09:56","slug":"words-not-needed-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2016\/02\/17\/words-not-needed-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Words not needed (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listen to the hands…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday <\/a>I wrote on here about those times when words must yield to the elegance of image in order to get the message across. Just this morning, I have come across Molly Lou Bartholomew’s <\/a>interpretation of Adele’s soulful song, Hello,<\/em> in American Sign Language. I have found it captivating in a way which I cannot really describe. To me, the hands are speaking in a ‘foreign’ language – since I do not speak ASL. The sound, of course, helps for me. I recommend watching the video below twice – once with the sound and once without it. How do they compare? As a frequent public speaker it is good to be reminded that sometimes face and hands do the talking too…<\/p>\n