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Honestly, I don't know why I bothered searching for resources, it's not like we want him to be fluent, we could just make this stuff up. All we want is for him to have a way to communicate until he's more willing to speak with us.
But anyway! I found something interesting, namely British Sign Language's alphabet. Wow. Very different from the ASL version - mostly in that almost all the letters seem to be two handed, while ASL, as far as I know, uses one handed letters.
Still, was cool. I was duly impressed at the differences.
But anyway! I found something interesting, namely British Sign Language's alphabet. Wow. Very different from the ASL version - mostly in that almost all the letters seem to be two handed, while ASL, as far as I know, uses one handed letters.
Still, was cool. I was duly impressed at the differences.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:17 pm (UTC)(We actually just learned how to hedge in ASL, interestingly enough.)
I don't think it's trying to pass yourself off as an expert to say you know the basics of the alphabet.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:18 pm (UTC)How do you hedge in ASL? They actually taught you this? Where are you learning this?
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:24 pm (UTC)Well, it's hedging in the sense of answering requests. It follows the format (basically) of, SURE-ME-FINE-(request verb)-BUT...(express a negative).
I'm learning this at my university. ASL is my foreign language.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
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