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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. I wish to help others with my condition come to terms with the fact that not everything needs to make sense. Part of the problem, I think is not just overthinking - as in analysis and discussion of the topic but "over thinking " as in applying logic to a problem and trying to make it make logical sense - instead you need to "over feel " bigeneration, applying feelings to it. Fans do this with a lot of things - like "who would win in a fight?" when from a writer's perspective it's "whichever would make the funnest story for them to win". The Fan Discourse Narrative 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 tr...