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From: Paul.Bergeron@f8.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Paul Bergeron)
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Subject: Sign language
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Date: 27 Sep 90 16:46:37 GMT
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 SW> Noting a previous message of yours, I think you sign. Is your signing 
 SW> perceptably different from those who had signing as their first 
 SW> language?
 
Well, when i first became deaf, learning to sign was pretty hard.  I went 
to the Louisiana State School for the deaf, and a few students were hard 
of hearing, and helped out by interpreting for me.  I took a few classes 
in college, and sign pretty good.  But I guess you could say that my signs 
are a little different from everyone else.  Maybe not the signs, just the 
grammer.  Since I have been around deaf people for more than half my life, 
I don't have much trouble understanding them.  Some of them have trouble 
understanding me though.  How about you?  You must sign well since you 
have been deaf since year zero!  The hardest thing for me is to talk and 
sign at the same time.  I can do one, or the other, but not both.  I get 
confused!!!

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