how does a sign language interpreter deal with unfamiliar words?

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Gameshow I’m watching just asked which citrus fruit is also known as a shaddock and, having never heard of it, wondered if the interpreter was in the same boat and had to spell it out or something

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The same way people who speak a different language typically deal with unfamiliar words: they describe the word they’re looking for using words they do know already, like someone calling a snake a danger noodle

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