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Reagan is a Bioinformatics PhD living and working in Little Rock, AR. Anything posted here represents his opinions and in no way represents the views of his employers. Anyone who says otherwise is looking for a fight.

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This is a link posted by Reagan on Wed Oct 28, 2009 at 4:22 PM
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Wikipedia: Profanity in American Sign Language

cleversimon:

Oh man, yes.

I once treated a deaf patient who was at the Campus Safety office after having made comments about wanting to hurt himself. A sign language interpreter was there as I walked in and introduced myself. Shortly the patient got agitated and started to walk out, giving me the finger. The interpreter dutifully translated it as “fuck you”, and all I could think was: my sign is bad, but even I know that one…