Re: Sign language
| From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 8:26 |
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Campbell:�<<�1. Has anybody made a con-sign language?�
Has a community ever been found of normal, non-deaf human people�who
naturally use signing rather than phonetics as the basis of
their�language?� >>��No. A few where most folks were bilingual, and
hearing�people could (and often did) communicate with others with�signs;
never exclusively--and never without a spoken
language.��-David�*******************************************************************�"A
male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a."�"No eternal reward
will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."��-Jim
Morrison��http://dedalvs.free.fr/��On Apr 28, 2008, at 4∞19 PM,
Campbell Nilsen wrote:��> 1. Has anybody made a con-sign language?�> 2.
Has a community ever been found of normal, non-deaf human people�> who
naturally use signing rather than phonetics as the basis of�> their
language?�>�> "Define 'cynical'."-M. Mudd�
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