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Using Sign Language, Irish Sign Language, you can see that I'm using a lot of body movements,
I've a lot of facial expressions, so when you're learning, if anyone is interested in
learning Irish Sign Language you need to make sure that you use a lot of your facial expressions
because a lot of information comes on the face. So like for example when you're talking,
you know and you're asking somebody 'what?', the tone of your voice will indicate the emotion
behind it. So, deaf people express the tone of their voice through facial expressions.
So if we're shocked at something and we're saying 'what!?' or if we're asking somebody
just 'sorry, could you say that again, what was that?', you know, we have that tone though
our facial expressions and sometimes, you know, if I'm on a bus with my friends and
we're talking about something people think we're actually fighting sometimes because
we're so expressive but it's not, we're just having a conversation. And hearing people
sometimes don't realize that, they think that we're fighting, we're getting a bit aggressive.
It also happens in pubs sometimes. If you see a group of deaf people, you see hands
everywhere, a lot of movement and people can mistake that for aggressiveness sometimes,
I'm sure it's quite annoying actually for hearing people sometimes, but if you do see
that one you'll understand from now on what it is.