I once saw a deaf patient fingerspelling off to the side to “feel out” the word they were trying to write the same way you might “sound out” a word. Blew my mind. Also the time we had a schizophrenic where the translator couldn’t make heads or tails of their signing so we tried BSL etc with similar results but eventually they got medicated and it turned out it was ASL just the ASL version of “word salad” (common symptom of psychosis). Like I know it’s just a language like any other but it’s always cool to see the different ways it can manifest the same functions and dysfunctions.
I once saw a deaf patient fingerspelling off to the side to “feel out” the word they were trying to write the same way you might “sound out” a word. Blew my mind. Also the time we had a schizophrenic where the translator couldn’t make heads or tails of their signing so we tried BSL etc with similar results but eventually they got medicated and it turned out it was ASL just the ASL version of “word salad” (common symptom of psychosis). Like I know it’s just a language like any other but it’s always cool to see the different ways it can manifest the same functions and dysfunctions.