The signer must shift their body to represent both the woman waiting on the corner and the perspective of the drivers.
The biggest mistake hearing learners make is attempting a literal English translation. ASL is a visual-spatial language. For example, the English sentence "The car swerved to avoid hitting me" becomes, in ASL, a single classifier movement: asl stop the traffic story translation
For hearing students learning ASL, internalizing this story means understanding a core truth of the Deaf experience: The signer must shift their body to represent
