Hi guys, here is my sign proposal for the word ‘Deaf’: index finger pointing to ear and eye at the side of the face. There is only a slight modification of the present sign as the finger is not moving down to the mouth after pointing to the ear, but moves to the direction of the eye. That’s all, folks!

The meaning is obvious: person who ‘hears with the eye’ because that is what Deaf people do using our visual capacities for receiving communication. Or you may say: ‘ear moves into the eye’! By this sign we are not denoted by something deaf people cannot do physiologically as a negative deficit anymore. By this new sign we would be denoted by something we are good at, our positive visual abilities that we use to “hear”. How about that?!

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