> The expressiveness of hand gestures (in general) is quite limited Clearly you've not met many sign language speakers. Or Italians. This is a perfectly cromu

> The expressiveness of hand gestures (in general) is quite limited Clearly you've not met many sign language speakers. Or Italians. This is a perfectly cromulent covert hand gesture. It has high coding entropy - I've literally never once seen someone make this gesture (outside of videos demonstrating it). Fingerspelling is not remotely similar since it's a sequence of codes in rapid succession.