another random thing.
there's this woman who comes to the pool and swims her ass off almost daily.
her name's renee.
she's unique in the fact that she's deaf, or mostly deaf, and reads lips pretty damn well.
arturo, my sifu, and i were talking to her the other day about ASL.
i knew there were different sign languages around the world, but she was saying that ASL is more closely related to french and even chinese sign language than it is to england's sign language.
...something about how the syntax of ASL is totally different from that of spoken english, so the matter of how the language goes about forming a sentence dictates its similarities.
yeah. i don't really know if i understand it completely either. but i think i get the idea. sign language uses symbols, but leaves gaps that leave understood meanings to connect them.

anyway. i guess even ASL has different dialects.
one example she gave was a middle finger, but with the signer's palm facing the person being signed to. only in arizona does that refer to a cactus.

so the next time you're in arizona and you get cut off while driving, don't forget to flip them the cactus.

bah-ching!