wolfe but sad @wolfgang@awoo.space

ASL: "able to"
Israeli: "owner"

ASL: "funny"
Israeli: "try"

ASL: "homie"
Israeli: "work"

i grew up around people from a lot of different language backgrounds who all (including me!) had to use non native languages a lot in our day to day life; so i've gotten quite good at sussing out peoples native language from their accent and even their grammar in their NON native languages

anyway what i'm saying is i think m'aiq the liar is native in a language that doesn't have any personal pronouns, except maybe "their/her/his own"

adhd be like: i got distracted from getting distracted from getting distracted

*talking about morphology of numbers in israeli sign language*

me: "am i the only one who ever asked you this question?"

sign teacher: "yes"

ASL: "name"
Israeli: "sick"

ASL: "wolf"
Israeli: "fox"

ASL: "friend"
Israeli: "hanging" or sometimes "depends"

Dutch Sign: "friend"
Israeli: "lesbian" (old sign, based on sexual connotation 😐🙃)

ASL: "yes"
Israeli: "disrespectful"

let's kick this off with an absolute banger:

Israeli: "problem"
ASL: "bitch"

gonna make a thread of sign language false friends i encounter because OH MY GOD THERES JUST SO MANY and some of them are real spicy

polycules are webrings for relationships send toot

this is me pretty much every day now:

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRNDqodG/

the autistic urge to phrase every sentence in a way that allows me to shrug it off as a joke just in case i actually misunderstood the entire context of what i'm responding to

i need those early 00s pants with zippers to turn them into shorts