如果你用拇指和其他手指做一个 “OK” 的手势，那就是美国手语中字母 “f” 的形状。

If you make an "OK" sign with your thumb and finger, that is the shape for the letter "f" in American sign language.

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渐渐地，我发现了我对美国手语的热爱。

Little by little, I discovered my love for ASL.

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我自己经历了这个搜索过程，发现了一些让我在大学里变得更好的经历：美国手语。

I myself went through this searching process and found something that has changed my experience at college for the better: I discovered ASL—American Sign Language.

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It's not a full-blown language like american sign-language or langue des signes quebecoise but it's a language nonetheless, with words and syntax and phonology.

这种语言并不像美国手语,或加拿大魁北克手语那样成熟,尽管如此,这种语言依然拥有词,语法和语音

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So, what I want to do is, I want to discuss the scientific notion of language, at first restricting myself to systems like English and Dutch and American sign language and Navajo and so on.

因此,我想做的是,我想来谈谈语言的科学定义,首先我会将自己限定在,诸如英语,荷兰语,美国手语,或迪瓦霍语等语言系统之下

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