According to this book, the most important principle in Signing Exact English is that "English should be signed in a manner that is as consistent as possible with how it is spoken or written in order to constitute a language input for the deaf child that will result in his mastery of English".
This means that idioms such as "cut it out" or "stop horsing around" should be signed exactly as those words are rather than just "quiet" or "stop " or "finish". It also means that inflections or markers must be shown.
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