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Originally Posted by loml
deafskeptic -You said that you have some cueing experience, you must then already know that this is NOT about voiced sounds, but visual "sounds." You do not need to have the best hearing aide or a CI to use CS. As for the idioms and slang, cueing could/would help you acquire the vocabulary. Then it is a matter of discussion and defining them.
Why do you think the visual sound would have little meaning? Please expand.
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I believe your question has already been answered by another poster. For starters, you need a good foundation of language skills as has been explained to you many times.
Most hearing don't cue and you only pick up slang from from your peers and it helps if your parents use idioms. I read a lot and that is how I picked up on idioms. Comics are a good source of slang though I certainly recall having fights with my parents who thought it kept me from learning to read. Most people don't have to make an effort to pick up slang.
However, even with this access I'm usually behind by a few months slang wise. I'm very good at picking up slang. The problem here is that first that slang has to be accessiable to me. Hence why I rarely use slang in my prose. Thanks to one of my hobbies, for once I was ahead of the game a few years ago.