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transcription: πŸ€” means lesbian in sign language. adora: πŸ€”πŸ€”πŸ€”

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[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Which sign language? In BSL it's an L on its side made up of the thumb and finger next to it of the dominant hand with the rest of the hand closed, and that hand on on the other hand, which is open and flat. Once it is on the other hand's palm you oscilate it from side-to-side gently.

Edit: Ah, we looked it up and it's close to the ASL one, it's still an L on its side but in this case the finger is on the tip of the chin and the thumb is off the face, so it's similar but not exactly like she is doing, nor the emoji.

Edit 2: Accurate signing is important to us, so apologies if we ruined the joke but it's important to communicate correctly in sign else sign language users might be confused.

https://spreadthesign.com/

Edit 3: Okay, so closest we have found so far is French and Croatian Sign Languages πŸ™‚

[–] erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

hey that is really cool, i guess memes arent perfect tho, but im glad that people who are interested can get the facts here because of you <3

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Awh, thanks! We don't want to step on anybody's toes, paws or hooves etc but we do like helping!

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The world the character is from. Why would she know a Terran language?

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago
[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I think the sign in ASL was moved off the face and is now dominate index finger touching the chin and thumb in the air, still in the β€œL” shape. My understanding is that the original ASL sign had its origins in stereotypes that reduce lesbians to just wanting to eat each other out, so it’s been updated. Let me be clear, I don’t NOT want to eat other women out, but I do have a good bit more to my personality than that XP