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[captlebubbles]

In a continuation of Project Theo, I've decided to learn ASL, because not only will it be useful in general, it'll look good on future resumes, and give me something to do with my hands when I've got that itch burning under my skin and no viable outlet for it

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[wolfy_writing]

Cool!

I took a course and learned a little bit. The main thing I picked up is that there are a lot of cool video dictionaries online. (Paper books often explain the signs with pictures and arrows, which is cool for simpler signs, but confusing for the more complicated ones.)

[wolfy_writing]

Thanks for the reblogs! (Sad shark in a dress is sad because she's a character in Hannibal, and the show does not treat people well.)

[captlebubbles]

I meant to reblog them earlier, but I was on mobile and couldn't type a reply, so I had to wait, and then I forgot, hence getting a bunch of them at once.

[wolfy_writing]

It was fun to see, and encouraging!

[captlebubbles]

True. I had to look up a sign for my circus fic the other day (two of the characters are mute) and was like "oh, learning from a video is so much easier than learning from paper".

[wolfy_writing]

I know! I hope there are a lot of people making good downloadable video dictionaries, because the paper makes no sense!

[captlebubbles]

I was trying to find a proper set of lessons today and it turns out most of the videos are just dictionaries. I was hoping something that would explain the language itself, not just the signs. Like I know just enough to know that it's structured differently than spoken language, but I don't know the details or the nuances and I want to learn the actual language, not just a bunch of words.

[wolfy_writing]

I hope there's something.

The main thing I remember is that there's what they call a topic-comment structure (you name the thing, and then you say what you want to about the thing), and pronouns don't consist entirely of pointing, but definitely involve pointing.

[captlebubbles]

That first part is what I know, like, the order of sentences is different, which makes sense, but I couldn't remember exactly how they were done.

(That's actually how Black Speech is structured too, incidentally.)

[wolfy_writing]

Ooh!

(...now I'm wondering how Orc sign language would be structured.)

[captlebubbles]

I had an rp partner a few years ago who was playing one of the nine as being mute, and she put a shit ton of work into sussing out how MSL would work.

I. Don't remember anything she worked out.

[wolfy_writing]

I bet it was interesting.