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Join a Facebook group called "Deaf World Love Sign Language V.I.P" (signers from all over the world. can't even comment in the same language) If you know sign
by veb 11y ago
Join a Facebook group called "Deaf World Love Sign Language V.I.P" (signers from all over the world. can't even comment in the same language)
If you know sign language, you can pretty much understand what they're saying. The first time I noticed I understood someone in Brazil, talking about work, I didn't notice that... I was understanding them. I didn't understand certain stuff -- slang --.
Yes, abstract and non-literal. It's because of the PC brigade. Growing up... things were a whole lot different. It's still pretty much literal.
- schoen 11y agoIt would be really interesting to see someone sign the whole Swadesh list in different sign languages and try to see the level of similarity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh_list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh_list Edit: oh, there's already a special Swadesh list for comparing sign languages because of "overestimation of the relationships between sign languages, due to indexical signs such as pronouns and parts of the body". (Those signs are the ones that are most likely to be shared because they're likely to arise independently or have an inherently obvious meaning.)