Wow, I do it and see other people done it and never relised they were slangs lol.

it is???? i mean like watching people sign asl is a bit confusing altho there are some similar signs

Not ... entirely. ASL developed as a combination of French sign language, sprinkled with Hand Talk (indigenous) signs. ASL alphabet is one-handed, BSL requires two hands (how they spell things and hold a baby/laundry basket is a mystery 🤣) ASL where = BSL for "what" ASL where = Japanese Sign Language "what" + "location/place" Very few signs are similar, as cultural differences and references dating back to their (country's) cultural development caused many signs to divert in different directions. When ASL was in its infancy, men and women wore bonnets/hats, so they are reflected in those signs for those words, whereas BSL didn't emphasize the hats/bonnets as important cultural gender markers when it was developing, hence BSL signs for those words are emphasized differently. If you can understand BSL without captions, it's because some of the body language and lip movements help fill the gaps.

Their best friends, and yes Benny and jazzy are both deaf.

@@rainbow_T Ok, thank you so much for answering my questions. 🥰

@@BlueRose0616 very much welcome! 😃 if you have any more questions about the British deaf community your more than welcome to ask!

If you find out, lmk!

@@TheKatarinaGiselle benny was signing “ I don’t understand what your saying” so it is either a problem with the subtitles. Or it is a short word to mean “ I don’t understand what your saying”

British x

Thanks

Does bsl mean basic sign language?

@@kingking3950 no it means British sign language

... Do you drive with your ears? Deaf people can learn to drive just fine

​@@jennivamp5yes you do drive with your ears. For the same reason it's illegal to drive with head phones in. You can't hear if someone is honking, an ambulance, firetruck, police siren, trains ect. It's dangerous.

@@frickfrack7075 no, but you can see lights with the mirrors.

Deaf people drive the same as hearing people they get taught how to drive the same as hearing people do, they get told visually about what do do if a car is behind them etc. there is allot of information in bsl or any sign language visually showing what to do it’s how they pass their theory test. Deaf People are more aware than hearing so are very good at looking more, and they have mirrors which they use they can see if a ambulance was behind or if a car cuts Infront. They drive very well I know allot of deaf who are excellent drivers.

@@frickfrack7075 that's why emergency vehicles have flashing lights and railway crossings (and everything else) have signs. It's not dangerous to drive deaf, it is dangerous to drive distracted, which is why it's illegal (in some places) to drive with headphones on.

I've been wondering the same thing!

Benny he signed “ I really don’t understand what your saying” so I think it might be a subtitles problem or a slang word to shorten the meaning of “ I don’t understand what your saying” since that is what he signed when the subtitles say that x