Re: Sign language
| From: | Sai Emrys <sai@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 1, 2008, 4:29 |
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:26 AM, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> Campbell:
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> 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?
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> 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.
Though it's worth noting that the most famous - Martha's Vinyard - had
IIRC common examples of *hearing* people communicating with each other
in ASL, not just it being used where hearing status required it.
FWIW, I use ASL with various hearing friends for probably similar
reasons. It's just more appropriate sometimes.
- Sai
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