If a person doesn't already understand the concept of double version then signs
like "DEFOCUS SEE-TWICE" and/or CL-BB "overlap changes to side-by-side" would be
a reasonable approach.
If your conversation partner or audience is already familiar with the term
"double vision" then you will generally be understood if you were to sign
TWICE-SEE (while optionally mouthing "double vision") or even SEE TWICE.
"Seeing double" would match up to SEE-TWICE.
"Double vision" would match up to TWICE-SEE.
When introducing the phrase "double vision" to a conversation with someone who
needs to recognize the specific term "double vision" on a text-based test or for
eventual written or typed communication the person would likely benefit from the
phrase being fingerspelled as part of the introductory use of the concept.
Gammatically, "double vision" is a noun phrase where the word "double" serves as
an attributive adjective modifying the noun "vision."
If we are being honest, the vast majority of adult Deaf Americans are somewhat
familiar with English. Argue that all you want but the fact is that English is
literally our written language. Such being the case many (if not most) of us are
familiar with English phrases (such as "double vision").
When ASL teachers or their unfortunate students over-apply or wrongly apply
grammatical structures it leads to some pretty silly signing that is not
representative of how Deaf sign in real life. We don't sign: BERRY-BLUE to mean
blueberry. We don't sign HOUSE-GREEN to mean greenhouse. To sign "greenhouse" we
do a one movement version of GREEN that immediately transitions into HOUSE.
If you mean a house that is green you can sign GREEN (using the regular double
movement GREEN) and then sign HOUSE. Or you can do the faster version
one-movement version of GREEN if the meaning is still clear from context.
Uninformed teachers will sometimes claim you have to sign HOUSE YELLOW to mean a
house that is yellow. That is incorrect according to "me" and according to the
linguists at Gallaudet which I have discussed on the pages of Lifeprint(dot)com.
We also don't sign YOU HOW to mean "How are you?"
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