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"Alphabet"? "Syllabary"? How to Categorise Sign Language Writing Systems? A Proposal The following article will assume the reader has a familiarity with sign languages, Deaf culture and sign language writing systems. Sources will be given where available. All of the sign language writing systems covered should be available in Zrajm's page (link below). I am in a weird nerd corner of the internet where we talk about sign language writing systems quite a bit. These are orthographies or notation systems used or proposed to write sign languages.  Another nerd in this space is collating a bunch of these sytems into a big page containing as many as possible -  Sign Language Writing (© 2025 Zrajm)  (WIP). My discussions and perusal of this list has lead me to some thoughts about how to categorise said systems. Looking at the above list, at time of writing (09/2025)  gives the following chart; This is a mixture of two separate scales - Linearity and Unicode Compatibilit...

You Are Overthinking Bigeneration: A Thematic Analysis I'm fully aware of the irony of writing a whole post about a topic while saying "you are overthinking it" - but I am a chronic over-thinker too. However, I mean "over thinking " as in applying logic to a problem - instead bigeneration should be "over felt ", applying feelings to it. I see discussion quite a lot here on Reddit saying "Bigeneration doesn't make sense!" or "Why did he do his emotional healing offscreen?" or trying to connect it to some logical framework. The main theory I see offered is as follows; The Dr bigenerates and 14 splits from 15. 14 has a whole separate life for a while. When 14 dies, he will be re-merged with the Dr and become 15. The argument for this is that the line; "I'm fine because you fixed yourself." ... implies 15 is in 14's future. People also argue other lines, or lines from the novelisation also support this. While this ...