Re: Yepyep YHL (was Re: I'm new!)
| From: | Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 22, 2000, 5:43 |
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>From: czHANg <FengXing-czHANg@...>
>Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 12:22:13 -0700
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> Kinda hard for me to commute from the West Coast *gigglabyte* :}
> I am gonna look into various cheap ways to learn ASL... one is I
>am gonna
>_hook-up_ with some deaf people and their hearing/signing friends. Deaf
>culture seems very intriguing... a great possible real-life immersion in a
>different mode of existence.
>
> czHANg
>
That's how I'm learning Taiwanese Sign Language. There is very little
lexical similarity between TSL and ASL, but the few signs of Japanese Sign
Language that I know are identical or extermely similar to their TSL
counterparts. Except for Halellujah which is a compound of quite different
parts. Try checking you phone book for a Deaf Action Center. That's what
the Deaf community centers were called in Dallas. Deaf culture is
facinating -- so many unexpected, but totally logical, differences from the
surrounding hearing culture.
Adam
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