• Opisek@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    If people small-talk in sign language, would it be called small-talk?

    Your remark about “spoken words” made be think about this and I find it curious, since “small-talk” has become something of a fixed expression.

    While words related to vocal conversations do appear in other phrases like “being left speechless” for example, I imagine “small-talk” to be more of a thing on its own in today’s usage.