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WOW!
What amazes me is that every poster, no matter how diametrically opposed to other posters: Has at least one good, solid, point to make.
Here is one inescapable fact: Language lables you; Pigeon holes you; Puts you in your own little corner and furthermore people will leave you there.
There is no one way to use English, ASL, or any other language. Your best bet is to be able to talk the way the peeps talk whose respect you looking for. I don't talk the same way with my grandson and his dawgs as I do with the old hippies at the artist group, or the thinkaholics at my old chess club: The same with my spellen.
And yes, leet is not only changing Nglish, its changen sign too. Other day I saw a deaf girl fingerspell "g 8" (pointing to her friend) "txt" (pointing to herself, frowning mock serious).
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