Re: CHAT: My new treasure
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 15:34 |
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 21:59:33 +1100
=?iso-8859-1?q?Tristan=20Alexander=20McLeay?= <anstouh@...>
writes:
>
> And France has TWO sign langs? Oh god... I thought the fact that
> deaf Aussies,
> Brits and Americans couldn't communicate all that easirly was bad
> enough...
> Tristan
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I have a friend from Belgium whose mother is divorced and deaf.
Somewhere she met an American deaf man, and they got married; and it
seems that French Sign Language and American Sign Language are (still? i
seem to remember reading that ASL was based on or influenced by FSL, i
don't remember whatever it was mentioning the existence of more than one
FSL) mutually intelligible, because if i remember correctly she speaks
FSL and he speaks ASL and they understand each other; which is good
because i'm pretty sure that she doesn't speak English and he doesn't
speak French or Dutch. My friend would always participate in programs
for the deaf community when we were in highschool.
-Stephen (Steg)
"yo llamo a las llamas con hierba llena de lluvia."
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