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Aubree Easter

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1/25/2026
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I have a question…so the sign for (wish) is also the sign for (hungry)? Or are they different in any way? The word hungry won’t come up in the dictionary on this app and the word wish won’t come up on my other ASL dictionary app so 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Rose

1/26/2026

Someone correct me if Im wrong, but my understsnding is "hungry" starts at the throat and moves down. "wish" starts at the chest snd moves down.

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Aubree Easter

1/26/2026

I looked at the visual representations of each sign. Wish does start at the chest and go down, Hungry starts at the base of the throat and goes down, barely a difference that’s why I was confused. Thanks so much for sharing :)

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Sing and Sign 🎹🎹🙏

1/26/2026

Rose you are right ✅️ 👏🏽 wish starts at the chest and stops at the chest hungry goes down to your stomach

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Jennifer McCray

2/22/2026

I feel it’s a lot about context too. I might be lazy with hungry and start at the chest at times, but I would depend on context clues to help me decipher which the signer means.

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