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I believe that what comes out of quite a few (hearing) people's mouth, is not an overt attempt at communication with another individual, but more of an automatic, unconscious "thinking aloud" process that has little to do with others around them. When required to exert the effort to repeat it...

I don't understand why they are considered mutually exclusive. I am not aware of that tabu in the teaching of more than one oral language to kids. I recall that many parents of Latino kids back about 30 years, avoided teaching their kids Spanish because of the fear that they wouldn't...

Do you hear the words in your head if you're lipreading?

Cool discussion! I studied German through High School (long forgotten) and am close to bilingual in English/Spanish. Working on ASL, but still a baby, so it probably doesn't figure in here yet). Best I can tell, I dream in NEITHER Spanish or English. Also doesn't seem like I THINK in...

Wow. Very interesting reference, thank you. It makes sense to *me*. I eventually figured out on my own that I had a dairy allergy-- probably casein rather than lactose-- after growing up with frequent respiratory problems which I suspect were caused by the allergy. Takes a while to learn...

Hi-- Say, do you have any thoughts on a connection between MS and gluten? Three folks in the last two generations of my family had MS which may indicate hereditary risk, and I've run into some vague references as to that gluten connection, but nothing definite... :dunno2:

Personally, not taken. I appreciate the system, this forum is refreshingly clean, so it must work. :ty:

Hmmm, I see that a couple of other replies I already made must be somewhere in moderator limbo-- just for the record, THANKS to the several of you who have replied. This moderator thing... is there a probation period for newbies after which replies get posted directly, or is there always a...

Hey, I've concluded through personal experience that numbers and math are really a separate language, perhaps using a different part of the brain, and develop separately from the other languages we use...:eek3:

Cool, thanks for the feedback. It's pretty common in English to express a simple number in various ways even if it's not in one of those "special" contexts you mention, but not so much in Spanish, so I know it depends on the language. My ASL instructor, though a competent interpreter, is not...

Thanks! That is a wonderful site which has already helped me a lot; what a great service he's done! Couldn't find anything there that addressed this specific question, though...

Hey, folks-- Had a discussion today in class about numbers. In English, if someone sees a number like 2410, she might say: twenty-four ten or two thousand four hundred ten. Is there that kind of variation for a native signer, or is there some fixed natural order of signing large...

Hi, people-- :wave: I'm a hearie just starting out with ASL and am thrilled to discover this site. I've been interested in how language works and language acquisition for years; my first language is English but I'm pretty fluent in Spanish (have studied it for years, and recently moved...