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Originally Posted by Cheri
Oh Please, don't come off as defending Buffalo.
She speaking about a "friend" sure doesn't sound like she speaking about her own form of sign.
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But, Cheri, she didn't say her friend was a horrible person for signing English. She just said that the signed English caused her to loose attention to what her friend was saying. She was talking about the method of signing, not the person. She did say that this was a "friend". If she was being judgemental, this person would not be her friend. That is the difference. And I think that Buffalo was using "friend" in an abstract way, not speaking of a specific person.
Signed English provides an inadequate base for learning any language, says educational psychologist Jenny Singleton, PhD, of the University of Illinois. As early as the 1970s Ursula Bellugi, PhD, and her colleagues found that signed English is visually cumbersome and that it takes speakers nearly twice the time to produce a sentence in signed English than in oral English or ASL. Signed English takes so long, in fact, that it?s feasible for a child to forget the beginning of a proposition before seeing the end.
This is what Buffalo was agreeing with.