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| DaisyMaisy Senior Member United States Joined 5380 days ago 115 posts - 178 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish Studies: Swedish, Finnish | Message 9 of 10 05 January 2014 at 5:43am | IP Logged |
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When I took an ASL class years and years ago, there was mention of something called Signing Exact English, which sounds like the Czech and Polish signing mentioned above. It sounds like the same situation with someone thinking sign language was somehow inadequate and that English grammar needed to be imposed upon it.
Sign language is cool but I was completely useless at it. Where I could remember and retain verb conjugations and vocabulary in a spoken language, I could not do that at all in sign. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JennyMay244 Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 5577 days ago 5 posts - 6 votes Speaks: German*, English, Sign Language Studies: Spanish, Japanese, French | Message 10 of 10 05 January 2014 at 12:25pm | IP Logged |
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German also has the same, a German Sign Language and then something called LBG (Lautsprachbegleitendes
Gebärden) which is basically spoken/written German expressed through signs. This sometimes works good for certain situations but since it follows German grammar it is just very impractical because it doesn't support the visual character of sign languages. When it comes to one international language I know that this is always the first question hearing people ask deaf people about. But what we should not forget is that sign languages just as spoken languages evolved through history and are therefore also closely linked to culture. It never worked to unify the world and only speak English all over the world. Why would a country give up something so special like a language that is so full of history and culture? The same goes for sign languages. And at least here in Germany you also find quite a few dialects of German Sign Language e.g. in Bavaria. So in the end, I am happy that there are different sign languages just as there are different spoken languages because we would miss out on the fun of learning a language and exploring the culture through language. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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