Hi, I felt that I wanted to say something about the different ways of signing one word.
I see that alot too, some is about location of where you learned it like some of the previous post already implies. But I also believe that sometimes it depends on the enunciation, much like how hearing people may change the way the speak on specific words, sometimes they are doing it to elaborate something or another.
One reason that I learned of why signs are so varied for something, is because it is not NATIONALLY TELEVISED. My GrandFather-in-law, had mentioned back in the days well before Television, that when you travel from one town to another or a different state, then you would hear variations of the same word.
I think that is what we face here.
Since we already have network channels dedicated to Black people, Bible folks, Music folks, Rappers, Spanish and all that.
Why don't we have an ALL DEAF channel, they can have Open-Caption on it. I guess it would be funny to be telling the person sitting next to you to turn up the sound. But I digress.
Well, that's my two cents. And of course it is my First Post.
