<p>“There’s no grammar in ASL.”!!!</p>
<p>You have to be kidding, right?–there’s grammar, and frankly, it’s harder than pretty much any language out there, IMO. It has grammatical concepts that spoken languages can’t even articulate or really explain.</p>
<p>And not much spelling? Why you think everyone learns the sign language alphabet? There’s plenty of spelling–the same spelling as English but plenty of nonetheless. You have to be spell and read fingerspelling very fast, too, so it’s not like you can muddle your way through, at least not for very long.</p>
<p>Hearing people, in my experience, want to study ASL because: a) they have issues with auditory processing, b) they know Deaf or Hard of Hearing people or want to know/work in or with Deaf culture, and/or c) they have a complete misunderstanding of ASL and mistakenly think it’s not a “real” language and therefore won’t require any work. </p>
<p>Sorry, this is a bit of a pet peeve of mine.</p>