It's more trying to understand in the general sense how someone who is deaf in the game might communicate with someone who wasn't. Yes, language is 'translateable' and I'm assuming in something like English to German, the person speaking English just hears the person actually speaking in German in English. Maybe with some sense that they're actually speaking another language, maybe not.

But if the situation had a person who speaks verbal English with someone who speaks only in sign language (or who happens to be signing), how does the sense of what is being said come across on either end? To the person speaking English who doesn't understand sign and to the deaf person who might not be able to lip read?

I threw out a wild guess that maybe the person speaking English heard some kind of dub of what the signs would translate to, which is where the theme of the questions came from.


The specific sense is that there is a character who does not know how to read and write well and was injured in the most recent event and needs a way to communicate. They'd been using speech-to-text to write, but now that won't work since they've temporarily lost their voice. Alex was going to get a friend to teach him sign. Speech and writing are both overwritten, but I wasn't sure if sign would be. But, again, thinking of sign in this specific instance led me to thinking about how signing would work in general.