Sign Language Experts Needed

[MangaReader]

I don't know if it's just me but I had difficulty understanding what you were signing. I am fluent in sign language but I almost had no clue what you were saying as a whole. I was able to pick up some signs but I could not make out the sentence or story you were trying to tell.

For me, my pet peeve is a signer that doesn't move their mouth or mouth the words they are signing. It makes it harder for me to understand them. I understand this is probably required when learning ASL/Signs in classes but there are some deaf people that don't speak/mouth their words while signing and that makes it harder for me to understand them.

 

[Reba]

the research I'm doing is regarding how difficult it is to communicate in signed languages when no mutual language is shared. i am aware the videos aren't perfect...but i didn't really have anyone to make them for me and i don't have funding to pay people for their time. only one of the videos was in asl. i did have my teacher change the english into asl so the grammar for that video was correct. i intentionally signed slow because i also was showing the videos to people who have no knowledge of any sign language, and i thought it would make it more possible for them to catch something if they saw it at a slower pace (which did end up being true)

But you see, you can't make a fair analysis if your signing sample is corrupted. You really aren't using ASL as your base; you're using "Mary's signs" as your base, and that's not a common language to anyone.

However, if this is just a homework exercise and not real academic research maybe it's not that critical. Just don't make any definitive assumptions based on your little experiment.