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Old 03-26-2004, 06:14 AM   #3
Skunk
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Join Date: September 3, 2001
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
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Originally posted by Grojlach:
the sign for "gay" is an upright thumb on one hand in the palm of the other, wobbling from side to side.
hahaha!
Oh man! It may not be 'homophobic' , but it sure does verge on the pornographic!
[/QUOTE]I was going to comment on that too - it doesn't seem to be much of an improvement!

I don't think that this is political correctness gone made though. Sign language was created in a time when society didn't have a problem with bigotry. Society has changed since then, and so has the spoken language - time for sign language to catch up.
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