ASL is quite different than English... you can sign in English or you can sign in ASL The ASL has a different sentence structure. When I was first learning about the Deaf Teletype revolution (We have a collection of a diverse group of TTY both mechanical and CRT and portable and ... I would correspond via email with a young person that sold us some ttys and wondered why it was almost a different sentence structure, almost like Yoda but if you look at both closely not really the exact same. Hard to explain... but English and ASL utilize 2 different Sentence structuring ... or so it appears to me.
If you learn ASL and Signing well there is a good need for excellent interpreters out there. And yes, always looking for ANYTHING related to the history of TTY and other assertive communications devices. Ed# In a message dated 11/25/2018 5:46:55 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: There are still MANY schools arguing about whether to accept ASL (American Sign Language, as used by Deaf people). I would think that therefore, BSL (British Sign Language) should qualify
