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From: Stephen.White@p1.f853.n681.z3.fidonet.org (Stephen White)
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Subject: Foreign Sign Language Books
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Date: 5 Mar 90 22:20:11 GMT
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 > While there, I met three hearing impaired Russian gentlemen; between
 > Russian sign language, ASL, spoken English and spoken French, we managed to
 > have a nice conversation, but I was at a loss to understand many of their
 > signs.  Likewise, I have a deaf Mexican friend who is much more fluent in
 > Mexican sign language than ASL or Signed English.  Does anybody

   And there's Australian Sign Language (Auslan), Australian Signed
English, British Sign Language, (probably British Signed English too),
etc. There is even an International Sign Language...

   Oh yeah, there's even Italian sign language - I think all Italians
use it, irrespective of whether they're deaf or not! (grin!)

Steve!

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