A sign language (also signed language) is a language which, instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns, uses visually transmitted sign patterns (manual communication, body language) to convey meaning—simultaneously combining hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to fluidly express a speaker's thoughts.
Wherever communities of deaf people exist, sign languages develop. Their complex spatial grammars are markedly different from the grammars of spoken languages. Hundreds of sign languages are in use around the world and are at the cores of local Deaf cultures. Some sign languages have obtained some form of legal recognition, while others have no status at all.
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Since we learn a lot SIGN in our classes, I found it very interesting when uncoding those signs because it give us self-satisfactions.
I found it really funny and meaningful if we are using sign language to communicate.
If a person don't know the sign language, we can actually cheated each other by learning this sign language.
Beside, the sign language gave a lot of help to the people can't hear sound. I often see a woman playing the sign language on TV News report when I was a boy.
I wondered the person who cannot hear sound and yet we set a kind of SIGN to let them understand the world. I did communicate with the deafness people before, and they trusted you all the way because you're the only one can hear what the world is it. We can actually manipulate the mind of the deafness people. I think it's mostly representation than the real that the deafness people interpret the world because all they know it's about a SIGN LANGUAGE.
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