Megladon
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Hello, first post here. Ok, so i recently got a new roommate (she posts here, thats how i found out about this site), and the other night she asked me a question, i guess it wasnt suposed to spark the conversation that it did... so i figured i'd use it to give me a reason to post ;-)
Ok, she said, what if the ratio of deaf to hearing people was reverced, she asked me if hearing people would have they're own language. I told her i didnt think so. My thinking was that sign language was created out of a need for the deaf to communicate with eachother/the world. My thinking tells me that if the ratios were reverced that the hearing people would likely learn sign language, and life would go on like that. She didnt agree, saying that hearing people wouldnt learn it or whatever. I'm not exactly sure why. But i think that if there was a language all hearing people and deaf people could understand, what reason would there be for the hearing to create another language if there wasnt any already.
So thats my thoughts on the subject. So say hi and tell me what you think.
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Ok, she said, what if the ratio of deaf to hearing people was reverced, she asked me if hearing people would have they're own language. I told her i didnt think so. My thinking was that sign language was created out of a need for the deaf to communicate with eachother/the world. My thinking tells me that if the ratios were reverced that the hearing people would likely learn sign language, and life would go on like that. She didnt agree, saying that hearing people wouldnt learn it or whatever. I'm not exactly sure why. But i think that if there was a language all hearing people and deaf people could understand, what reason would there be for the hearing to create another language if there wasnt any already.
So thats my thoughts on the subject. So say hi and tell me what you think.
/\/\êg£àdôñ