Sign language is more like watching a movie than listening to radio. It's extremely spatial, with space around the body used to indicate grammatical elements an

Sign language is more like watching a movie than listening to radio. It's extremely spatial, with space around the body used to indicate grammatical elements and their relation to each other. Spoken languages are far more similar to each other than to sign languages. Subtitles are like watching a movie with the green screen instead of the scenery filled in.