During the fintech panel in Ballroom C at 10:02, the speaker said “cache the ledger” while the slide read “cash ledger,” and my hands did a split-second tango between STORE-SECRET and MONEY before the Deaf attendee grinned and signed, “pick one.” Linguistic diversity is half the fun, but how are you keeping real-time accuracy when a presenter ricochets between English, Spanish, and alphabet-soup acronyms in a single breath?
I pre-game with a 60-second term dump and a “if I tap the lectern, pause” cue; during the talk I anchor the sound-alikes in space — left for “cache/C-A-C-H-E,” right for “cash” — so I can flip without breaking flow. If there’s no pre-brief, I fingerspell once, then commit and jot the alt on a tiny glossary so I don’t ping-pong unless context truly shifts. Feels like changing lanes with one blinker for both directions.
I pre-establish a C-hand CACHE at a “server” locus and keep MONEY in a separate spot; when the presenter bounces, I add a tiny server trace before CACHE so it reads compute, not cash, and if the slide disagrees I give a one‑beat brow hold and switch. @carlito34 I’m with you on anchoring, but mouthing won’t rescue “cache/cash,” so the micro‑icon cue’s been gold — do you mark it another way?
At 10:02 in Ballroom C I hit the same “cache the ledger” vs “cash ledger” mess — . I tag language with a tiny EN/ES at the cheek and give techy CACHE one beat of air-typing before the sign; if it’s still fuzzy, I do a quick WAIT hold, fingerspell C-A-C-H-E, then self-correct to MONEY with a small WRONG flick so the Deaf client can steer. If the presenter won’t pause, I’ll pick one and flag it with raised brows — anyone else using language tags?