chookabee
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Hello, first of all! I'm learning ASL, for no reason other than I love learning new languages!
I have a couple of questions. I understand that ASL has a different grammatical structure than... I'm not quite sure how to say it... spoken English? I am starting to learn the grammar behind it, but for now, I'm learning the signs more than the grammar. If I were to engage in conversation with a Deaf person, and I used spoken English grammar, would I be easily understood?
I was looking up "Deaf Culture Dos and Don'ts" and most of them made perfect sense and seemed very reasonable, until I came across one that kind of puzzled me. Someone was talking about how they were fine with a person just walking in between two people signing if they couldn't get around them, and another said if someone waited until the conversation done for someone to walk in between them, it bothered them. To me, this just kinda seems rude. Is walking in between people okay?
My last Deaf culture question, I've noticed that Deaf is always capitalized. I was just wondering why.
For the random forum question, is this - - meant to represent thank you?
Thank you all so much for taking the time to answer my questions, and have a charmed day!
- Mac
Hello, first of all! I'm learning ASL, for no reason other than I love learning new languages!
I have a couple of questions. I understand that ASL has a different grammatical structure than... I'm not quite sure how to say it... spoken English? I am starting to learn the grammar behind it, but for now, I'm learning the signs more than the grammar. If I were to engage in conversation with a Deaf person, and I used spoken English grammar, would I be easily understood?
I was looking up "Deaf Culture Dos and Don'ts" and most of them made perfect sense and seemed very reasonable, until I came across one that kind of puzzled me. Someone was talking about how they were fine with a person just walking in between two people signing if they couldn't get around them, and another said if someone waited until the conversation done for someone to walk in between them, it bothered them. To me, this just kinda seems rude. Is walking in between people okay?
My last Deaf culture question, I've noticed that Deaf is always capitalized. I was just wondering why.
For the random forum question, is this - - meant to represent thank you?
Thank you all so much for taking the time to answer my questions, and have a charmed day!
- Mac