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From:  Dan Parvaz
Date:  Fri Feb 15, 2002  5:58 pm
Subject:  Re: Lack of understanding of SW, so frustrating...


>> How did you lead with that? Do you think that (some)
>> deafs, specially the ones that are already scared of
>> spoken language, would use SW as an "excuse" not to
>> continue their studies of that spoken language?

This is the same old oralist "sign ruins speech" argument moved to a
different medium. It's as bogus for static language as it is for the
dynamic variety.

Cheers,

Dan.

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