Hands down the biggest missed opportunity
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idk if thats a pun or not but its good
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How can it be when it's completely regional like spoken languages? Heck, even in English, you have a variety of dialects that differ in vocabulary and phrases... :/ Plus you do realize how oppressed the deaf and hard-of-hearing community wss back then? It was worse than today
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Back then, deaf and hard-of-hearing children were expected to lipread and learn to speak, plus weren't allowed to sign in class. They'd have their hands slapped for doing so. You cannot expect language to become universal when it's always going to be different even for spoken.
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But this is just me recalling how it was for American children. Though, it probably wasn't that great everywhere else. Not to mention that American sign language is based on French sign language, so they do borrow from other languages just like spoken language.
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Its just a shower thought. Common.
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Doesn't excuse it.
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You got really worked up.
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I hate when people say this. How do you expect language to develop identically in different parts of the earth? It didn’t happen with spoken language why would it happen with signed language?
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I don’t understand this argument. Sign language mimics action, wouldn’t it make sense since when there’s a language barrier, people tend to communicate with hand motions anyway?
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It is a full language, it doesn’t just mimick movements. some signs are similar across countries others are very different.
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Yes like English, Sign language obviously has different dialects, vocabulary and phrases across regions. But would it not be really great if most people were taught sign language at a basic level so that we can all, hearing and non-hearing, can communicate and be more inclusive?
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Same way many people learn the basics of the English language, no matter what region of the world they can communicate with us fluently despite dialectal differences which can be learnt over time.
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The problem about this is that, while almost anybody hears some English in their everyday life, it is VERY hard to keep up your sign language skills. Even I - as a native speaker - struggle to get back to sign language after not seeing my deaf parents for a while.
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I think it'd be better to teach basic communication skills for (but not limited to) conversations with deaf people - such as speaking slowly and clearly, not using colloquial language and using a pen or your phone if none of these work out.
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. As someone who has a degree in American Sign Language Interpreting (
#ASL), this is a tweet lacking any kind of true thought or understanding of languages, especially those that are signed. -
I agree, the idea of regulating a language that people have historically dismissed, if not demeaned, is ridiculous. But, it IS s shower thought... I'm just a student, but I really wish that a language would help me learn more spoken languages than just 'english' *shudder*.
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