Quoth Rapscallion
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When I worked as a locksmith, years back, we had some (non-sucky) regular customers who lived in a nearby apartment house for the hearing impaired. This couple (I guess in their 30s) would come in to have keys made or whatever. He was deaf and mostly blind (he could read things with a viewer that blew them up about 100x; I saw him use this machine once to sign a check), but appeared to have grown up hearing, as he could speak normally. She was deaf and mute, but could see normally. The two of them went everywhere together, and a conversation with them usually went like this: you'd talk to the girl, who would lip-read what you said and then spell it out in sign language into the guy's hand, and he would reply vocally. Between the two of them you had one person's worth of communication, each filling in the other's deficit. It took some getting used to, but was kinda sweet to watch.
So it is possible for a whole conversation to be going on, and it looks to an outsider like they're just holding hands. (And another deaf person would know when they were trying to be private, and look elsewhere.)
I realize the question was meant as a joke, but I thought it deserved a serious answer.
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