There are a lot more press briefings featuring sign language. Many appear to be more animated than I ever recall or at least ever noticed. It’s enticing. Maybe it’s being locked in a house for almost a year during a pandemic, but it gets my juices flowing. I saw a signer for a political candidate where she was motioning her arms back and forth in a way that suggested “Go girl, it’s your birthday, get your game on”. It was a “slap that ass” gesture but the ass was a foot or so higher than where you would expect it to be. Or maybe it was someone tall like Jane Lynch. I watched another discussion on the BBC where a guy, to the best of my estimation, was signing with a British accent. It wasn’t just that he was wearing one of those perfect, slim fitting European suits with a…
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