I am not deaf, but a family member of mine is a studied American Sign Language in college and worked as an interpreter and we've discussed this topic a few times at length.
Some interesting take-aways I have from discussing this:
* Sign language communication is very different. We can speak with our mouths much faster than we can manipulate our hands, so fewer words are used. I have to imagine this means that the words that are used are far more significant.
* Names are interesting. Most people names don't have signs, and signing every letter would be annoying, so apparently people get nicknames made up of descriptive words. So, you might go by "tall mustache" in normal conversation, but you're 10u152 in writing.
People wouldn't write the same way they would sign. ASL is a completely different language and direct translations to written English modifies the meaning of a lot of statements.
Some interesting take-aways I have from discussing this:
* Sign language communication is very different. We can speak with our mouths much faster than we can manipulate our hands, so fewer words are used. I have to imagine this means that the words that are used are far more significant.
* Names are interesting. Most people names don't have signs, and signing every letter would be annoying, so apparently people get nicknames made up of descriptive words. So, you might go by "tall mustache" in normal conversation, but you're 10u152 in writing.
People wouldn't write the same way they would sign. ASL is a completely different language and direct translations to written English modifies the meaning of a lot of statements.