Questions/Question 19

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#1 wiki | comment Topics: Language, Sign language Edit question: edit aicqt asked on FAQ/Main FAQ at 2025-03-06 Answer date: 2025-03-06	A couple more questions about sign language (which might also be relevant to the person with the character who doesn't know how to read) if she wanted to teach someone how to sign, would she teach them the sign language she knows, and then they would also use the translator to use the local variation, or could she directly teach the local variation? And is the local variation based on any real world sign language (ASL perhaps? Hers is based on NZSL) for if I want to have her use a particular sign?	The same rules about native languages apply: characters will still know their own language, and can consciously speak it, but the world's "default" will feel oddly natural. If a character's not consciously thinking about their own language, they automatically speak the local languages. For the sake of describing a specific sign in a tag, however, you're free to sample from any iteration of sign language! We're not going to be super particular about it. You can think of it as an equal-parts mishmash of all existing sign language with the fun addition of an Otherworldly Flavor.