My fellow Americans ...
Let me just say that to do what we have to do is the honorable thing and the honorable thing to do is always right.
I bought new underwear. It was the right thing to do. Men understand that, women understand that. It's a universal constant. When a prince from Saudi Arabia was asked 35 years ago what he wore under his robe, he replied "BVD's", a popular brand of underwear at the time.
How's this relate to deafness? You may recall that many hearing folk think that sign language is universal - like undies. It's not. We use ASL as do the Canadians outside Quebec, the British use BSL, Germans use DGS, French and Swiss use LSF, Norwegians - NTS.
The world is rich in sign language diversity. There are over 100 different signed languages used throughout the world today and 60 of them have their own written component, as evidenced here:
http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/
What's this mean for us? More fun! Here's a great page to look at:
Cat in the Hat video
It includes a sign video in ASL of the last few paragraphs of The Cat in the Hat, an English translation, and SignWriting.
You can check out a few of the other languages and read their signs. Some only have a few as of yet, others, like the German site, have many.
Enjoy! :-)
Bill
2 comments:
glad someone else posted ;) but forget about the sign language, tell us about your new undies.
Hi, Bill and fellow ALDA folks:
Thanks for the links and info.
I knew there were other "sign languages" but I did not know that there were so many variations.
What exactly do you mean by "SignWriting", though? The stuff at the bottom of the signbank.org site?
Thanks again,
Jim S.
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