American Sign Language

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Today, I have a very bad sore throat. I wish my family knew sign language! I wouldn't have to try to whisper, just sign to them. :o)
When I was a teenager, I learned a mixture of American Sign Language and English Sign Language. There were two ladies who signed for the deaf in our church; from them I learned songs first, then later was able to sign for the preaching.

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Signing to deaf people is very different than speech. Signing naturally takes longer than speech, and deaf people take 'shortcuts' just like we do, but even more so. They express the main parts of a sentence, but not necessarily in the order we do. Also, they usually do not understand figures of speech. As a teen, I didn't fully realize either of these things, and I probably confused those poor people!
In the video below, if you watch carefully, you may be able to pick up on the 'backward' shortened sentences.

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