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I agree with those who said that PSE (I learned it is now called Contact Language Variety, or CLV) is a mixture of ASL and English. CASE follows English syntax/word order but the signs are conceptually correct whereas if you are using SEE II, you would not sign conceptually. My friend whom I met in college used SEE II (and was the ONLY one who did, so I had to really improvise to find a way to communicate with him until I learned SEE). He signed "butterfly" as "butter" (the spread that you use on bread) and "fly" the verb rather than signing "butterfly." Another example was the phrase, "I'm gonna hit the sack." He would sign literally every word. Of course he wasn't going to hit a sack...he meant that he was going to bed. If we used CASE, I would sign "I'm going to go to bed" (but I would voice "I'm going to hit the sack".) If I used PSE, then I would still say "I'm going to go to bed" but I would use more ASL concepts when signing. In some ways PSE (aka CLV) and CASE are very similiar.
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