American Sign Language and British Sign Language are not mutually intelligible. While English speakers can understand each other across the Anglosphere, deaf people from different English speaking countries are unable to understand each other.
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Despite sharing the same oral language British Irish…
Despite sharing the same oral language, British, Irish, Australian and American sign language are all completely different languages.
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Sign language users have “accents”, and can often tell the region another user comes from through them, just like spoken language.
Bill Murray was incredibly difficult to …
Bill Murray was incredibly difficult to contact on the set of “Groundhog Day“, a movie he hated working on. When asked to hire a personal assistant, he obliged and hired a man who was mostly deaf and mute, only using sign language. Nobody else on set knew sign language, including Murray.