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Jabberwocky

Written by Barb Ballard on November 1st, 2008 | 10 Comments

Jabberwocky (in cued English with subtitles)

I wanted to share this YouTube video. It shows the Louis Carroll poem Jabberwocky being Cued. It also has subtitles for those who cannot cue read. Jabberwocky is a literary classic, but was meant by Carroll as a parody designed to show how not to write a poem. According to Alice in Through the Looking-Glass, “Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don’t exactly know what they are!”.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5hiRL2ujM4

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Barb is the parent of a child with a moderate to severe hearing loss. Her son was diagnosed as post-lingually deaf and it is believed that his hearing loss was the result of intravenous antibiotics. She learned to cue after he was diagnosed as hearing impaired. Together with her husband Don, they live in rural Clifton, Virginia. Their son attends Fairfax County Public Schools where Cued Speech is supported by the Deaf/HOH program.
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10 Responses to “Jabberwocky”

  1. Esther Rimer Esther Rimer
    November 1st, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    how is it the moment I log on the net with my own computer for the first time in a week, my mail jumps and tells me I’ve been found out!

    psst Barb, I promise I will have new posts soon, maybe with a few video samples which I have been working on (Jabberwocky was a just for fun/practice piece for subtitling/youtube; it sat on my hard drive for a year until I decided to dredge it up a couple weeks ago).

  2. Barb Ballard Barb Ballard
    November 1st, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    I hope you don’t mind me posting it, but it was sooo good! I’ve always loved that poem and to see it cued was just wonderful. It reminded me again how so much of our literary culture is lost unless the exact words, real or imaginary, can be conveyed in the manner in which they were intended.

  3. Esther Rimer Esther Rimer
    November 1st, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    nah, I don’t mind at all ;) . Sooner or later someone was gonna see it!

    I love Jabberwocky too. There could be no finer cueing choice for wasting an hour with the mac cameras in the lab during an all-nighter in the deepest darkness of finals season. (Or for occupying mental time reciting (in lieu of an ipod) when you are sitting scraping dirt out of a square meter in high Texas summer, for that matter.)

  4. donna page donna page
    November 2nd, 2008 at 9:12 am

    Esther…. I fixed it so I get mail from wecue. and I got mail about Jabberwocky…… I eagerly clicked to open, all the while thinking…(my computer is a little slow) ooooh! if its good..(or even if its not,) I’ll send it to Esther , if I can figure out how to do that. When suddenly! To what did my wondering eyes did appear!But Esther herself, with no tiny reindeer! I shudda known! Whats even funnier than that is this……..sometimes I occupy mental time reciting Jabberwocky, too! (in lieu of an ipod, which I woudnt use if someone set it up for my own personal use, payed for it , put it in my ear and turned it on and off for me.I might accept it, tho, then take it to a pawm shop for cash, then I could go to a thrift shop…….something else to occupy mental time…mmmm..what might I find there?) any way…excellent cueing, girl! and very expressive. Recite it to your charges (an excellent intro to the wonderful, wacky world of Lewis Carroll literature)

  5. Lynn Lynn
    November 2nd, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    Barb – Thanks for that! Wonderful to see cueing made accessible to people via this meidium.

  6. Hilary Hilary
    November 2nd, 2008 at 7:57 pm

    Thank you! I’ve been working on a presentation for interpreters, and this is JUST what I needed! :) I found an ASL version of Jabberwocky on youtube also, so this is great comparison between cued English and ASL. :)

    I love what happens as folks procrastinate during finals…. hehehehehe. :)

  7. Lynn Beech Lynn Beech
    November 3rd, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    Hilary – That is funny!(procrastination is my middle name) Can you tell me if a person links and/or: can it be copied to a hard drive from “YouTube”?, will they always have the video…or….??sorry for the of topic *blush*

    Thanks

  8. Hilary Hilary
    November 5th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    You can only link to YouTube. YouTube prevents downloading (copyright issues; personal property, etc….).

    And links will work as long as the user maintains the video on his/her YouTube channel.

  9. Pam Pam
    November 8th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    Hi! What fun! Love the facial expressions! Is it okay if I list it as a link on http://www.cuedspeech.com?

    We need more!

  10. Barb Ballard Barb Ballard
    November 8th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    Pam, We’d love a link from you.

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