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a problem my wife and i had at the beginning of our relationship (solved very quickly, since we talked about it) is that i expected her to be able to intuitively read my body language. because the sign language i use is, for people who don't sign, basically all body language and facial expressions (for people who do sign, there are no actual signs it's all classifiers) and if you aren't constantly reading body language, you won't understand someone. it took an in-depth conversation about linguistics (a really fun one where we compared the four different sign languages the two of us use), but we managed to figure everything out.
You buried the lede. How does something like that even happen? I feel like the odds of two sign-language polyglots being in the same room, let alone in a romantic relationship, are vanishingly small.
Yeah we were in a band together. Music brings the strangest combination of people together
That’s really interesting and not something I would have considered, thank you for sharing! I wonder how that impacts communication for deaf autistic folks who suck at body language?
I've always wondered. The sign languages I am familiar with have specific codes/rules for their body/facial languages (the technical term is non-manual markers. Stuff you do in the language without using your hands. Like nonverbal communication in English) for example, furrowing your brow is the way you turn some verbs from actions into questions (only like a couple hundred people use the sign language I use to my knowledge so I'm going to talk very vaguely about ASL or SEE. I've only seen one person outside of my little group use it and that's Carel Struycken, who you might recognize as playing The Giant on Twin Peaks. I would love to speak to him someday and find out how my group and he learned the same sign language.