04 April 2011

"Hence"

Yesterday, as I was working through checking passages in the gospels with one of the Kenyan SL translators, I was trying to determine the subtle difference between two signs -- which looked and moved exactly the same, in the same location, in the same sentence order, but with a different handshape. One of them I knew meant "continue." So when I asked what the other one meant, I laughed heartily at what my Kenyan Deaf colleague fingerspelled back to me: "hence." =D And people ask me if sign languages are really dynamic enough to communicate complex ideas. ;-) Teheehee.

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