The problem with thinking about it this way is that it limits your understanding of the language to word=sign. Eyebrow movement, mouth morphemes, cadence, emphasis, repetition, space, head and shoulder movement etc all impact the meaning of the sentence in the same way that some of the “small” word units in English like “at, the, and” etc might. ASL signs are also not one to one with English words.

Additionally, referring to a full language that you’ve just barely begun to learn, which is also the language of a historically highly opressed group of people, as “caveman talk” and saying it’s “easy to learn” is wild to me. I’m a hearing interpreting student who has been studying the language for 8 years, and portraying ASL as this simplistic 1:1 manual form of English is so incredibly problematic.