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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9410087" data-attributes="member: 20564">I've been interested in linguistic change, and how the internet has sped up creation and adoption of new words.But TIL that ASL also morphs over time, which is obvious in retrospect but just never impinged on my consciousness.Telephone went from a two handed gesture with a mouthpiece and receiver to a one handed extended pinky & thumb ("Y" letter or "hang loose" surfer symbol) held as a phone handset, but is now becoming a flat hand held sideways tot he viewer near the ear, to represent a mobile phone.Also because of internet viewing and where people can see, the signing area is shrinking among new signers to better fit in what a phone would record/transmit.</blockquote>