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Ta. Quickly reading, although I will have a better look later, confirms what I thought, that it is largely a linguistic thing. I have always been fascinated by this - the idea of sign language as a real living language, not something which is making do for the lack of a real language. I love the way that you can see (hear?) accents when you see deaf people signing... you see cool young kids using a more languid motion to sign. The slightly prim old ladies seem to use a more precise clipped movement - one could image them decrying the deaf (Deaf?) youth for not speaking properly. Just like they do in English, French, whatever.