When Deaf people whose primary langauge is sign langauge think, they they think in sign?
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You think in your primary language, right? I'm learning sign language and sometimes I think in sign.  Its very frustrating when I'm writing things and I can't thing of the English and I want to just write the sign, but I can't.\n\nShort and simple, yes
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either someone mispelled "him" or they are making that sound when they are deeply thinking about a subject or next sentence to say.
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Because initially those who could not speak were thought of as "dumb".. then it was derogatory, but even after it was learned and understood, the term remained.  So now, when someone is described as deaf, dumb and blind, we know that they cannot hear, speak or see.
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As strange as it may seem, people deaf from birth will dream in sign  language. If they don't know sign language, they will dream in whatever mode of communication they've learned. \n\nPeople blind from birth will dream in sound and touch. \n\nPeople who have gone blind or deaf but who could once see and hear will sometimes dream with their lost sense, and sometimes not. The longer they've been without the lost sense, the rarer the dream using it will be.
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we are always thinking...non stop.nothing else can translate our thoughts other than language.\nlanguage is the means of communication and also a vehicle of thought.\nwithout language a writer,politician,salesman,lovers cant communicate...ouuuuch
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What is a signing group? Like sign language?
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Individuals with Disabilities.\nNever refer to a person who is Deaf by their disability, such as The Deaf Person...or a person who is Visually Impaired as a Blind Person.
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you could spell it in sign language
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no... she signs the words back or makes a gesture that is shows that the words were not what was suppose to have been said. \n\nIf a deaf person swears then a nasty person had to teach that person the word... and that person should have his mouth washed out with soap instead...
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i prefer deaf..because even though u cant hear u can see..read lips..gestures..and still know when u are in danger...like crossing the street...but i did have a deaf friend and unfortunately he passed away because he couldnt hear the person u came up BEHIND him to rob him so he kept walking..the guy shot him for 10 bucks...SO EITHER way its messed up
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Get a sign language phrasebook at your book store (mine was about $10) & think in terms of being descriptive with your hands.  Most of the words & terms are loosely based on visual descriptions.  For instance, worry is described by circling both hands in opposite circles above each ear.  Easy to remember, if you think about how ruminating & fretting is when you're thinking & "hearing" in your head all the confusing thoughts going in opposite circles.  \n\nVisualize each phrase & word personally so you can memorize it better.  Experienced sign language users go very fast & it's hard to keep up.  Fortunately, people are usually very pleased at someone attempting to communicate with them so they'll slow down for you.  It's really a fascinating language to learn.
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This is a very cultural thing with Mexicans. Talking with their hands a lot. A lot of sign language to make jesters about many things. They us sign language to communicate with or without speaking and I think whistling is also part of the same communication. It isn't usually meant to be offensive. But there are exceptions to every rule. Its kind of like most cities in the south of the US don't blow their horns very often but go to Manhattan and its rare to take a ride without someone laying down on the horn.
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There are very few cases of feral children learning to speak.  In general, in the few cases we are aware of, such children did not learn to speak like other humans.  Two cases that spring to mind are those of Victor and Genie.  Victor was found in the woods in France some time ago.  A French scientist worked with Victor to try to teach him how to speak, but the only word he was able to use after some period of time was "lait" (milk) and he only used that word after he got some, I believe.  A more recent case is that of Genie, who was neglected by her parents and had very little contact with them other than when they gave her food and drink.  She was also trained to speak by experimenters but never successfully learned to speak the same way adults do.  It's difficult to say, though, whether their language learning was affected by their unusual (and, in Genie's case, abusive) upbringing.\n\nA more relevant situation would be the situation of deaf children of hearing parents.  In many cases, these children have otherwise great upbringing but don't receive any language input from their parents (that they can hear, anyway).  When these children do learn to sign, their sign language is often more like that of non-native users than the sign language of other deaf people.\n\nThese cases provide support to the idea of a "critical period" for langauge learning, which is that people are best ready to learn language during a specific period of their lives, and that period is thought to end sometime around age 7 or 13, depending on who you ask.
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=some people can be so inconsiderate toward others.  Most deaf people or those hard of hearing like the elderly have learned to lip read.  If someone will not face you when talking with them, thenn you are just wasting your breath and they are not worth talking to.  although most deaf people "sign" they realize that the masses of us do not how how and respect that.  We should be just as respectful toward them and face them while speaking.
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i have thought about this in the past, example when i am wireing a boiler in (for my job) i realised i was setting out the job and coming to a conclusion of how to do it, it was easy to work out in my head and i realised i had worked it out far faster than i could explain it in words. when i think of how this is done the closet i can get too is that we think in some form of brain language,far faster than images you can consiously think of, but images is the nearest word i can think of to explain it.  i think as a hearing person you naturally conbine the "brain language" and spoken language maybe losing the ability to ever understand it. I would love to know if there was any answers, or investigations to this question.
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My daughter is deaf so how dare u  act like this she relies on sign language, i wonder how u would feel living in a silent world and needing sign language please think before u ask stupid questions.
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hehehehe. toooo funny :). But to answer your question, no they don't. I once had a friend who she and her parents were both deaf, and when she cursed, her mom just slapped her upside her head like everyone else's mom probably did.