NYT Article on the changes in ASL b/c of digital life

Source-A Language Changed
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/briefing/american-sign-language-changes.html

snip-"He had gone through a similar experience, he said, when he went through training to become an interpreter. During that training, he learned that some of his signs — ones he had learned from his parents — were out of date.

The experience inspired Amanda, who is hard of hearing, to take an ASL class, and she noticed the same pattern. “I saw a lot of differences between how my young Deaf teacher signed and how my parents sign,” she told me. In those differences, Amanda recognized that there was a story to tell, and The Times has just published it."


snip-"Most ASL users, unlike Amanda, did not learn the language from their parents. (More than 90 percent of deaf people have hearing parents.) People instead tend to learn the language through classes and their peers. School curriculums and slang can both change more quickly than language habits handed down from one generation to the next.

The number of ASL speakers is also relatively small, Amanda notes — with 500,000 being a common estimate. This smallness can contribute to faster change."


more there.

The article with the changing terms are here, I cannot c&p them on this phone.


Source-https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/26/us/american-sign-language-changes.html