The mother understood immediately. Lin sees natural signing as a dying language, disappearing because the elderly who "speak" it are passing away and young people aren't learning it. She gazes at the dozens of tapes she's already shot, her brain mulling the lively gestures and expressions employed in scenes never seen in the literate world.
眼看著自然手語因老人凋零、無人傳承而式微，一種溝通方式面臨消失，林亞秀望著已拍攝的數十捲錄影帶，腦中浮現一幅幅生動的肢體與表情，這是文字世界所看不到的精彩畫面。