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by DC1350 1885 days ago
Lip reading ASL is pretty tough
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Nice, but I wonder to what degree mouthing the corresponding words aids in ASL communication?
That would go pretty badly, as mouth shape is significant to the language...

https://www.handspeak.com/learn/index.php?id=95

Are the mouth shapes made by ASL (and other sign-languages) mandatory and/or standard? I sort of had no idea they were part of the language if so -- having never really thought about it.