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Apple QuickTime movie  |  2002-08-15  |  26.8 MB  |  320x240  |  15fps  |  5 minutes, 22 seconds
Transcription: Well, basically there's a continuum of registers all the way from formal, frozen or formal registers. Frozen being something like the Lord's Prayer. You know, formal would be something like a presentation where the person is standing on stage, all the way down to something that's really intimate or very intimate where the people are, like a husband and wife would communicate with each other. They have a lot of shared history and background. It affects me hugely, hugely. I've found over the years that I'm not really comfortable going from English to ASL on a platform or within a formal presenta ...