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Signed English

This, again, is not Auslan. Signed English is a word-for-word translation from spoken English to signs, augmented with finger-spelling for the end of words -- in other words, a direct mapping from the English language to signs. Obviously, there are shared signs between Signed English and Auslan. Signed English remains the most common language taught to Deaf childrengif. When watching people using Signed English, it is quite clearly a less concise than Auslan, and people must slow down their rate of speech to sign at the same time. As unusual as it seems, Signed English actually appears very clumsy compared to Auslan which looks quite amazinggif.



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