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[Man] Let's see the instructions. I was hoping... about sign language. I heard you can use it to order

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[Off voice] True, at the Nameless Bar - that's the name of this bar in the center of Bologna, opened

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by two deaf young persons - you can also order in sign language.

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For those who are afraid to try, there are slips of paper with dishes and drinks.

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Alternatively, a mirror and a helper.

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[Woman] I'd like to open a Corona beer. How to you sign it in deaf language?

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[Interpreter] Beer - crown [corona]

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[Woman] OK, thanks. Beer - crown. Thanks.

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[Reporter] Is it difficult to order?
[Woman] No, no. See: "crown".

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[Barmaid] If you tell me "a beer" in LIS [Italian Sign Language], you get a discount.

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[Off voice] Sara Longhi, one of the two managers of the bar, recognizes that the discount is just a pretext,

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mainly a way to publicize and promote sign language among hearers too.

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[Patron] I'll try to have conversations using signs, using signs - I don't know.

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[Other patron] I think hearing people like the spontaneous gestures,

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the different communication manner,

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another way of communicating, paying attention to what you're doing, even having a coffee with people.

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I.e., you look at people's eyes, you really look at them.

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[Luce Tommasi] "You really look at them". Deaf people and support initiatives, or rather, integration initiatives.

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as we saw

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in this opening feature edited by Nelson Bova, there is a bar in Bologna

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which is becoming very popular, where people speak in sign language

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and if someone wants to try, they'll get

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a discount on what they buy.

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Today, we'll talk about initiatives like this one with our guests in this studio,

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who are Giuseppe Petrucci, President of the Ente Nazionale Sordi [National Institute of the Deaf]

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Good morning, President, welcome.

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Rosanna Zanchetti, whom you see in the small video, is helping us: she interprets LIS

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which is the sign language.

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And in the studio, there is also Rome's vice-commissioner [vice-questore], Roberto Maugeri.

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Good morning.
[Roberto Maugeri] Good morning.

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And he'll tell us about a new service, "An SMS for life",

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which enables deaf people to communicate with the police and with the emergency number 113 by SMS.

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So, President Petrucci, what can be said about initiatives like that bar in Bologna?

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Innovative ones, surely, as compared to habits that create barriers

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between those who hear and those who don't, aren't they?

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[Giuseppe Petrucci] Of course, this Bologna bar is a pilot experiment,

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the first experiment that really shows

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an integration between deaf and hearing people, where hearers

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strive to use sign language towards integration,

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and thanks to this effort, they can can get a discount.

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As the broadcast shows, interaction happens very naturally

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and I think that this experiment must be extended to other parts of Italy

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and this is really important, because it is a message of integration and solidarity;

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and it is very important for the recognition of sign language

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and it gives us a feedback

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for continuing to advocate the recognition of sign language.

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Seeing how deaf people

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communicate very naturally in a bar

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can become a way to communicate, and hence demonstrate

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that LIS is a true language.