![]() This is like going to Spain to learn Spanish to live in Italy to translate Italian. Great! What language will he be teaching them? ASL? BSL? SASL? According to Wikipedia there are at least 25 sign languages in Africa. Well, I'm pretty familiar with the ASL alphabet, but I wouldn't know the BSL letter 'F' if it hit me on the forehead.Īnd he wants to go to Africa and work with the deaf kids there. ![]() ![]() The first time Alec sees Eli, he's signing, and Alec thinks he recognizes the letter 'F'. It's right there in the name - American Sign Language. Unless he was planning on staying in America, the sign language that he would have learned there would have been completely irrelevant when he came back to England. He'd learn the wrong sign language in New York. Eli went to New York to study sign language. ![]() about a quarter of the way through, so perhaps my score will go up when I'm finished with this, but I cannot get over this one detail.Īnd, at least so far, this has been somewhat central to the storyline. ![]()
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