Anyone think they can answer this?

If a person was born deaf, in what language do they think?

Comments

CamulaHikari
Agree with the sign language. But I think that, since deaf people can learn to read, they maybe think in words as well, but like how we think with the sound of the words they just see the letters.
 
ProtoKun7
[quote name='Urza' post='2997008' date='Jul 21 2010, 11:58 PM']In sign language, generally.

Seems pretty obvious to me.[/quote]
I also thought this. :unsure:
 
D
haha, i agree with Haflore,
theres also the possibility that theyll just develop some sort of own language in their head, or anything that just communicates any sort of message.
oh, and theres something thats been bugging me for a while.
is sign language a language itself, or is it something to represent a language?
 
jgu1994
But that just wouldn't make sense. It's hard to explain in words why but it just doesn't make sense to me.
 
basher11
straight from google because im lazy :)

Can you think without language? Answer: Nope, at least not at the level humans are accustomed to. That's why deafness can have far more serious consequences than blindness, developmentally speaking. The blind suffer many hardships, not the least of which is the inability to read in the usual manner. But even those sightless from birth acquire language by ear without difficulty in infancy, and having done so lead relatively ordinary lives. A congenitally deaf child isn't so lucky: unless someone realizes very early that he's not talking because he can't hear, his grasp of communication may never progress beyond the rudiments.
 
Urza
[quote name='dbkdbk' post='2997028' date='Jul 21 2010, 03:08 PM']is sign language a language itself, or is it something to represent a language?[/quote]
It is a language itself.

But that just wouldn't make sense. It's hard to explain in words why but it just doesn't make sense to me.
Click to expand...
The way that a deaf person thinks is probably incomprehensible to someone who isn't deaf.
 
jgu1994
[quote name='Depravo' post='2997034' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:10 AM']Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.[/quote]
But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.
 
Depravo
[quote name='jgu1994' post='2997036' date='Jul 22 2010, 12:11 AM'][quote name='Depravo' post='2997034' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:10 AM']Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.[/quote]
But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.
[/quote]
So?
 
CamulaHikari
[quote name='jgu1994' post='2997036' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:11 AM'][quote name='Depravo' post='2997034' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:10 AM']Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.[/quote]
But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.
[/quote]
That's true but maybe they see the words (in letters) when they think, like reading a book?
 
haflore
[quote name='jgu1994' post='2997036' date='Jul 21 2010, 06:11 PM'][quote name='Depravo' post='2997034' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:10 AM']Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.[/quote]
But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.
[/quote]
Then in subtitles, like a movie.
 
gamefreak94
[quote name='haflore' post='2997043' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:12 AM'][quote name='jgu1994' post='2997036' date='Jul 21 2010, 06:11 PM'][quote name='Depravo' post='2997034' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:10 AM']Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.[/quote]
But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.
[/quote]
Then in subtitles, like a movie.
[/quote]I couldn't agree more.
 
sputnix
[quote name='Depravo' post='2997039' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:12 AM'][quote name='jgu1994' post='2997036' date='Jul 22 2010, 12:11 AM'][quote name='Depravo' post='2997034' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:10 AM']Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.[/quote]
But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.
[/quote]
So?
[/quote]
When a person speaks you also think the word at the same time, like when you mouth words you still hear what your saying because your thinking it.
When a person is deaf, very rarely will they lose all hearing capabilities, so after a very long period they can learn a language thus they are able to think it.
And besides it would be impossible to learn sign language if they can't hear the word it means
 
ProtoKun7
[quote name='jgu1994' post='2997029' date='Jul 22 2010, 12:08 AM']But that just wouldn't make sense. It's hard to explain in words why but it just doesn't make sense to me.[/quote]
Even if you could they wouldn't be able to hear your explanation.
 
retKHAAAN
i believe the deaf think using images. it be kind of silly to picture 2 hands signing in your head.
 
Gore
I was thinking about this before, not about deaf but wondering how someone would think without words, we need words to think..
 
Wabsta
Well, I kinda asked myself this once. And I got to know that most women I know think visualy.

I, myself, think in words, but some girl friends found this weird, cause they always think in visuals.

So I guess deaf people think visually too.
 

Blog entry information

Author
jgu1994
Views
484
Comments
44
Last update

More entries in Personal Blogs

More entries from jgu1994

  • jgu1994
    Life sure moves fast
    Life is moving quite quickly. I finished my second season of cross...
  • jgu1994
    WTF
    http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-seme...,0,470419.story So I'm on...
  • jgu1994
    Arrested Development
    Just finished watching season 2 and 3 of Arrested Development on...
  • jgu1994
    Earthquake
    So the area I live in experienced an earthquake of 3.6 today at about 5...
  • jgu1994
    My quest for eternal glory
    Well it started a couple weeks ago during physics class. We were doing...

Share this entry

General chit-chat
Help Users
  • No one is chatting at the moment.
    AngryCinnabon @ AngryCinnabon: anything that offers trump an opportunity to become an actual dictator is bad in my book, i...