Baruch wrote:It's the same when learning any language. I suppose signing is no different from spoken language in that regard. You learn a standardised form of the language, but when you become proficient and are exposed to native speakers it becomes apparent that there are many dialects. I'm writing in standard English now, but if we were speaking face-to-face and I reverted to my native dialect instead of standard English you'd have trouble understanding me. That's just the nature of language, and you'll come up against it with any language.
He worded it better than i did, but that was the point i was trying to get across.
Sign Language varies greatly all over the world, for example American sign language is so different from British Sign Language but yet we use some of their signs without realising it.
Same as any language, there is a base to start off and you choose how to develop it, I didnt have to sign in different regions of signs, i just chose to as i like the signs and think it show the word better.
Aussie as i know it does use most of British Sign Language but they made it their own, their own dialect really. So it varies and that is good cos it mean we are like hearing people having accents etc.
, is making a cross on the upper arm.
Even my mum always double checks when she asks me the time (which begs the questions – why ask!!!)