FLORIDA TO REQUIRE THAT SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS ACTUALLY KNOW SIGN LANGUAGE

A Florida House panel has unanimously approved a bill that would require officials to only hire a qualified sign language interpreter for televised hurricane briefings. The move comes after a news conference on Hurricane Irma last year when a sign language interpreter translated about 95% gibberish, including warnings about pizza and a big bear. Interpreters would have to be certified by the National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf or the Florida Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.
* To be fair, Florida does have bad pizza, and a big bear has been spotted more than once.
* Maybe the interpreter got confused between their right and left hands?
* In actual fact, most news conferences are only 68 percent gibberish, and 32 percent useful information.
* One of the fake interpreters was just doing jazz hands throughout the press conference, and no one was the wiser.
* If only there was a device that could listen to speech, and turn it into words on the screen.