Do you know, this never dawned on me until now. Unbelievable, since I’ve recently finished working on the Access To Work Programme, where I have been making decisions awarding grants of £1000s of pounds for people with disabilities at work and done loads for BSL and helping to purchase various hearing AIDS/ equipment. However I’m not a Govt minister responsible for communicating with the U.K. public
A lot of tv shows are shown through the night with sign language. I know people can record now but I don't understand why it isn't more widely available behind the red button.
Not sure of the need for legal action now it's been brought to the attention of the people who organise the press briefings.
Her logic being that bsl is a distinct language just like English which is why subtitles is not an acceptable solution. Presumably then there will be similar lawsuits from all the foreigners who live in the UK who also want it translating live into their own language?
Another failing from this delay and dither set of crackpots . And it’s a Tory rag and I don’t apologise for using this source as it illustrates how fekin useless this lot are. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...evarication-left-care-homes-fend-coronavirus/
Can you tell me what the legal de jure language of the UK is please? I'll wait (and if the answer is anything other than Welsh in Wales, you are wrong). In the UK, there are 14 recognised languages - English is de facto, Welsh, 3 types of Sign Language, Kernowek, Gaelic and a couple of traveler languages and some from NI and others I can't remember, but there is no legal requirement to speak English in the UK.
Doesn't that further my point then that ALL the foreign nationals, and apparently indeed any English or British person who chooses to speak another language instead, could sue that there wasn't an interpreter stood next to Boris?
Foreign nationals - no. Those who speak a minority British language (Welsh and Gaelic) can and have in the past. There is a (separate) argument about the number of people needing to speak a language before it is recognised as an official language of the UK - we might have 5000 speaking Kernowek but many times that speak Romanian, French, German, Urdu, Punjabi, Chinese or Polish.
