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    A few questions for fluent signers

    Thank you for your response! I am developing this game for an assignment in my graduate program. It is supposed to be a card game that is "predictably more suited" for an audience of children with deafness. The direction I am currently trying to work in is as follows: The game features a...
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    A few questions for fluent signers

    I am a graduate student, transferring to an MSc program in Game Studies. My assignment is to develop the game conceptually (i.e. descriptions of game mechanics and, possibly, a prototype). I am doing my school work on my own. Namely, I am trying to figure out whether the game mechanics that I...
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    A few questions for fluent signers

    Actually, the clamp on tongue analogy is exactly what I was thinking. But, unless it's painful, I don't think I'd find it demeaning to have to talk like this in a game. I mean, these kinds of limitations that party games impose on players are supposed to be silly and uncomfortable (like hopping...
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    A few questions for fluent signers

    Thank you for the reply! I think, you understood my question correctly. Not knowing enough about sign language, I don't know how difficult it would be to avoid signing while miming (I am assuming that a certain subset of sign language words might be similar to the types of gestures people might...
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    A few questions for fluent signers

    Hello. I am working on a social card game targeting children with deafness, and was hoping that the users of this forum might be so kind as to answer a couple general questions about sign language. I have had very little exposure to deaf culture and know practically nothing about sign language...
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