I think it's really cool that Black American Sign Language is in some ways more conservative than the kind of #ASL you learn at Gallaudet University.

Other ASL varieties use a lot of handshapes influenced by English spelling. But black ASL has kept more of the original handshapes, because black #deaf schools didn't get hit so hard by the oralist reformers who made war on ASL.

You can see BASL in action at csdhh.org/black-asl

#BlackHistoryMonth

Black ASL — CSDHH

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So, Rekka and I devised hand gestures for each one of the #uxn operations.

In includes a hexadecimal finger-counting scheme, and bitwise gestures, that we hope will be useful for anyone familiarizing themselves with binary.

The system uses a few existing #asl gestures, and purposefully creates new gestures to disambiguate others.

wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxntal_re…

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