Anecdote of the week that will make your heart gush.

So my sign language class had a "silent night" at a local, ahem, venue Friday night. A silent night is when everyone doesn't use their voices, but communicate in sign language the whole night.

One of my friends, Marianne, brings her boyfriend, who doesn't know much sign language ( he's not a part of the class). As we all are discussing name signs (people of the Deaf community have a special sign signifying their name so that they don't have to fingerspell it every time), the issue came up that Marianne does not have a name sign. Her boyfriend immediately makes the sign for beautiful but with an "M" and says, "I keep telling Marianne this should be her name sign."