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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/
03/21/nsign21.xml A few interesting issues here: standard British sign language apparently has such gestures as a hand miming a crooked nose for “Jew,” a limp wrist for a homosexual. A TV show for deaf people recently decided to change these signs to some less offensive whereupon the acting chairperson (note chairperson!) declared that the changes were a form of discrimination, in part because the changes were made without consulting deaf people, I think. (Also: the sign for a Chinese person changed from pulling the eye into a slant to miming some sort of Chinese national dress, which doesn’t seem all that much better.) 04:04