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James Womack Date: Tue Mar 14, 2000 9:49 am Subject: Re: The View from Ringside | |
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Valerie Sutton wrote: > Let me give you an example. What does the word "English" mean? > > 1. a bunch of sounds that express concepts, uttered by groups of > people in the western world > 2. the order of those concepts in a sentence > 3. how the sounds change depending on past and present tense!! > > So what is English anyway? smile Noise? > But one spoken language and one signed language can technically be > produced simultaneously - well - we all know not very well! Yeah, graduating Deaf kids are proof. > But you see my point...that because people can speak and sign at the > same time, they THINK they are using the same language simultaneously > in two different mediums...but actually they are not... because verb > conjugations are so different that - well - signing just isn't > English, even if the signs are placed in English word order. Obviously. > I think we would find that Deaf people do not get the same > information from an interpreted lecture when it is signed in English > word order...they get more information from ASL... Just as anynative language user would gt more from use of their L1 than use of their L2 . > That is why we are trying to write the best ASL possible, even though > we don't always succeed... Well, maybe not, but in mybook; you're closer than anyone else. > So SignWriting is not language....just as a, b and c are not - and > placing German words in English order would not be writing > English...would it? > Val ;-) Can't be clearer. -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ squirrelWisdom (\__/) .~ ~.)) /O O ./ .' Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were {O__, \ { Catholic. / . . ) |-| '-' \ ( _( )_.' https://www.education.eku.edu/Sed/faculty/womack/default.htm |
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