small, unclear signs?

[Carolyn L. Ostrander]

When I worked in high schools, the teens often signed to the side with
very small signs, one-handed, as a means of "whispering" without catching
the teacher's attention. Perhaps the signers trust you to understand a
reduced version of sign, and are trying not to draw attention to their
"asides".
Carolyn Ostrander

> > One problem I have encountered, and I would like to know whether it is
> > unique or not, is that of signing to interpreters.  I have observed that
> > some deaf people seem to dislike signing to interpreters, and articulate
> > their signs very small and without clarity, making them very hard to
> > understand.  Is this a phenomena that only I have seen??
>