Perhaps the most obvious difference is that ASL Sign language Accept Understand love Christmas sweater uses a One-handed fingerspelling alphabet while BSL uses a two-handed alphabet. Although Americans like to think the one-handed system is superior in terms of quickness, anecdotal evidence has it that proficient fingerspelled in both systems can get through the alphabet in the same amount of time. Interestingly enough, the ASL sign for “Deaf” is the index finger touching the ear (or near it) and then touching the mouth (likely derived from a natural gesture Deaf people often use with non-signing hearing people to inform them that one is Deaf). The BSL sign is similar, except that the index and middle fingers (held together) make the movement. However, in BSL, the sign for “Hearing person”
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