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Have you ever - voluntarily or otherwise - appeared in front of an audience? How badly did it go?
( , Fri 19 Aug 2011, 9:26)
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with 2 dialects, but sign language users tend to be able to switch into almost any sign language quite easily, especially when they have experience of it, and the native language has borrowed or developed from another.
'gay' meaning happy has a different sign to 'gay' meaning 'homosexual'.
'gay' and 'homosexual' are the same sign but just performed in a more informal/formal way respectively. It all depends on the context really, and if you are talking about a man or a woman.
( , Wed 24 Aug 2011, 19:15, 1 reply)
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It could be the whole Nynorsk/Bokmal and other dialectal stuff that meant she knew and used British.
So, what is "gay", meaning homosexual, then? I think it's a bit like a "pointing two guns" gesture, for some reason...
( , Wed 24 Aug 2011, 19:36, closed)
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www.britishsignlanguage.com/words/index.php?id=345
The same page has the sign for lesbian too. Although I do both from the palm of the hand. Oo-er.
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