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interesting / appreciate

This looks like a two handed version of "like."  The hands change from "five" handshapes into "eight" handshapes.

INTERESTING / interest, appreciate:


Note:  If a deaf person ever jokingly signs to you the numbers "2, 5, 8" what they mean is "very interesting."  The two comes from the initialized English sign for VERY.  (The English sign VERY uses a "V" as the handshape and uses a position, palm orientation, and movement similar to the sign "BIG."  Which is to say, the Signed English sign "VERY" is an initialized version of the ASL sign "BIG.")  ASL doesn't use the sign "VERY," rather ASL uses exaggerated movement, body language, and facial expression to indicate the idea of "very."  For example if I want to express the concept of "VERY MAD" I would use the sign for "MAD" but I'd do it faster, hold the last part of the sign longer, and contort my facial expression to resemble the Hulk with a wedgie. 





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