Posted on 06/24/2018 3:46:44 PM PDT by Hojczyk
How do you post without reading the story?
How am I ignorant?? You just stated yourself that there in interest in developing a more UNIVERSAL SIGN LANGUAGE!! HELLO!! That’s exactly what I posted! omg...seriously. what has happened here??
That it’s a story is sad as this should be matter of fact behavior.
Indeed. But how well has Esperanto done?
All you had to do was read the excerpt of the article to get your answer.
One of my employees who left (very exceptional woman) explained that before, each letter had to be spelled BY HAND, so it was very “exhausting” to spell one word and you could get arthritis.
Of course, Americans blaze the trail. The founder came up with ARM GESTURES which would alleviate the strain on the hand. ASL eventually was adopted globally because it was easier to make 2 hand gestures to make up a sentence instead of “hand spelling per letter” which strains the hand. —these were explained to me, by her, with the husband doing the interpretation.
So, does she ever mix up her right and left hands while signing?
Just Friday while I was waiting several hours at the local SS office, I said the they young lady sitting next to me that I was disappointed that ASL (there had just been a blurb on SSTV about the availability of ASL translators) didn’t become a universal language, the gestures for most nouns and many actions are easily understood, rocking an imaginary baby in your arms says ‘baby’ to nearly everyone, for example.
I noted that Indian/Native Americans/First Nations had hundreds of spoken languages, but could more or less all get along in sign language.
Well, why don’t you ask her?
Yes and one deaf from birth researcher had occasion to meet Koko the gorilla, he and Koko ‘talked’ for quite a while before he realized he was speaking to a member of another species in his native language!
The symbol for ‘drink’ is a fist with thumb extended against the lips and tipped up as if emptying a glass or bottle. That isn’t the same as water, but close enough to get a beverage in any language!
Ummmm, isn't that an FR tradition?
Better than Loglan...
Only when practicing in a mirror...
If schools taught sign language basics to elementary children for five or ten minutes a day they would take to it and enjoy it so much that they would continue to use it and eventually the deaf would no longer be isolated.
A change I’d love to see happen.
Yeah.
Young children learn languages without much effort, by the time they are of high school age those parts of the brain have lost that facile plasticity.
That’s why the people vested in destroying education in the United States wait until then to “teach” (actually to frustrate under the guise of teaching) languages.
Not having LOTS of Americans who can speak a given language puts us not just at a commercial disadvantage, but a military one as well. Code Talkers crippled Japanese intel.
I’ve been talking about it for at least 20 yrs.....no one listens....maybe they are all DEAF!
Public education is a tragedy.
I think education should be privatized.
I’d be happy to pay taxes for vouchers to help those parents who need them.
Deaf or just hard of listening...
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