+166 There is so much opportunity wasted having different sign language for every language. amirite?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Exactly the same opportunities wasted on having different languages.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I imagine it'd be way harder having one universal sign language. Since in English, we don't have word that are in mandarin or Spanish for example. And regionally you need the people to be able to express their sentence in a language they know.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Especially as technology advances, the written language a deaf person learns can be even more important than the "verbal," one (sign language). There is debate about this, but as an anecdotal example, since my deaf son left high school, he communicates almost entirely through text, email, discord, etc. to the point that his ASL is getting rusty.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

So pretty much like the majority of the world these days really. I'm pretty sure I know married couples who communicate more by text than talk.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

While we're at it, we can all learn Esperanto. There are regional differences within ASL, just as there are regional differences in English across the US. You could potentially mostly standardize it worldwide, I guess, but it would drift over time into different dialects.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's been a while since I took American sign language, but I remember my teacher saying it's all quite similar. I am not sure if that was American dialects, Western world or globally, but many signs are practical so it's possible for international overlap. Also not much for structure. As long as you get your message across.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

How are sign languages any different form spoken languages in that regard? Deaf people exist for far longer than the globalization

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Wow.. I never knew

by Anonymous 2 years ago