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I learned many things from the first half of this book. It was also interesting to know that something’s that I thought was right was completely wrong. Two chapters that caught my attention were chapter 10: “Are there such things as accents among signers from different areas of the country or world?” and chapter 13:”Some of my Deaf friends react with dismay to the “ILY” sign. Don’t they like it?” These two were interesting to me because they were things that I never thought about before and they are so common.
Chapter 10 was interesting to me because I was not aware that there were accents and dialects in sign language. I guess that has to do with me being a hearing person. I knew that if a hearing person was signing that it would be easy for a deaf person to pick up that they were hearing. To me I would just look at a person signing and think that were from America, where a deaf person would see this person signing and know what part of the country the deaf person spent most of their life. In addition, I knew that a hearing person who graduated from college would most likely sound ...

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