I learned many things from the first half of this book. It was also interesting to know that something I thought was right was completely wrong. Two chapters that caught my attention were chapter 10: “Are there accents among signers from different areas of the country or world?” and chapter 13: “Some of my deaf friends react with dismay to the “ILY” sign. Don't they like it?" These two were interesting to me because they were things I had never thought about before and they are so common. Chapter 10 was interesting to me because I wasn't aware that there were accents and dialects in sign language. I guess It has to do with the fact that I'm a hearing person. I knew that if a hearing person signed, it would be easy for a deaf person to understand that they were hearing. For me, I would just look at a person signing and think they're from America. where a deaf person would see this person sign and know what part of the country the deaf person has spent most of their life Also, I knew that a hearing person who graduated from college would most likely play ...