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I think that I've mentioned before that we have language tables at lunch. All of the major languages that we teach here -French, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese -have a language table. Yesterday, I discovered another language with a table...Sign Language! I didn't know that there was an ASL table until the Italian table was right by it (normally we're by Spanish or French). That's pretty cool. I was facing them, so I could see them signing and everything. I think sign language is really interesting, partly because I don't really fully understand how it works. Is there a sign for every word, or do you have to spell out a lot of things. It seems like spelling them out would take forever, but I'm unsure of if it's possible to have a sign for every word in the dictionary, even for just the most common ones. But maybe there is. They had two huge sign language dictionaries at their table...if you know, please feel free to comment. I also heard that there might be a Swahili table (taught as a J-term class this year), but that has neither been confirmed nor denied (to me) yet...but likely not. There isn't a Latin or (ancient) Greek table for classics majors (the only people who learn those languages), so I'm unsure if a one-time J-term class is likely to have a table...but at least Swahili is currently spoken, so who knows. Anyways...we at Middlebury like languages.