Edit: I'm fairly sure there's a Spanish SL as well.. there would be similarities, though I'm not sure how similar. [ 01-07-2004: Message edited by: Phoenix ]
The next day I was ashamed that I couldn't stop laughing for an hour. But God damn was it funny.
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FUCKING IDIOT wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
Is sign language a universal language? If I learn it in Canada, will I be able to go to Spain and communicate with anyone who knows sign language over there?
The language is called AMERICAN sign language, each language has there own version. IMagine CHINESE sign language, you'd be there all day just saigning one word.
I could say "LOOK! Squirrels are fucking" in 3-4 signs.
Maybe I should explain myself.
I was taught a semester of ASL in Jr. High.
The teacher was a dumbass.
She didnt want to confuse the students with who might accidently swear, so she taugt everyone what each curse was, and the regular word.
Make an "I love you" sign and clap with it for fucking, but if you crimp the end fingers it means squirrel instead, so alternating natural means squirrels fucking.
So I eaither point and do the motions, or do the point at my eyes then point and do the motion.
Jebus its 534am....
"If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh." ~ Magus
I took ASL in college because I refused to take spainish. catch is I never used it after I graduated and now I pretty much forgot it.
what was kinda odd was one day the class went to a blind/deaf school and you had to talk to the person while they held your hands so they could read what you were saying.
I remember back in fifth grade we learned a bunch of sign language for some "heal the world" song by Michael jackson, or something. It was stupid, and I can't remember any of it.
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This insanity brought to you by Masamune:
It is english based, and it's real name is American Sign Language, some Family friends have a deaf son so I learned ASL.
Over there, yes.
British sign language was the first and most widely-used one.
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Delphi Aegis had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
If people are actually deaf, they usually learn to read lips as well.
Not always true.. as far as English is concerned, only 33% of the language is able to be lipread. In my courses for ASL, we're taught to 'mouth' what we're saying in English as well as signing.. though that might be more of a benefit to us as hearing students learning ASL. [ 01-08-2004: Message edited by: Phoenix ]
