I once worked with somebody who was profoundly deaf and even my sad attempts at BSL were accepted with grace - he'd been there for two years and everybody else used to write him notes (he's a computer drafting technician). If anybody would like to learn some genuine sign language then
THIS can be useful.
I can
spell in BSL and ASL (Spanish SL uses similar, one handed, spelling to ASL - the accents make a slight difference) but that's a tedious way of communicating - imagine "speaking" to somebody and spelling out every word!
Phone texting has revolutionized things of course and finger spelling "text speak" can speed things up.
I'll confess some self interest here - after 45 years as an engineer on heavy construction sites I now wear two hearing aids
I wonder what the reaction would be if you signed to these scam artists?
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