The way that a deaf person thinks is probably incomprehensible to someone who isn't deaf.dbkdbk said:is sign language a language itself, or is it something to represent a language?
It is a language itself.
QUOTEBut that just wouldn't make sense. It's hard to explain in words why but it just doesn't make sense to me.
So?jgu1994 said:But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.Depravo said:Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.
That's true but maybe they see the words (in letters) when they think, like reading a book?jgu1994 said:But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.Depravo said:Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.
Then in subtitles, like a movie.jgu1994 said:But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.Depravo said:Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.
I couldn't agree more.haflore said:Then in subtitles, like a movie.jgu1994 said:But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.Depravo said:Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.
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.Depravo said:So?jgu1994 said:But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.Depravo said:Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.
Even if you could they wouldn't be able to hear your explanation.jgu1994 said:But that just wouldn't make sense. It's hard to explain in words why but it just doesn't make sense to me.