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> Not hard at all. Baseball, from juniors to the majors, also uses sign language. This need additional contexts. Deaf communities use Signed Languages in baseb
by Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
> Not hard at all. Baseball, from juniors to the majors, also uses sign language.
This need additional contexts. Deaf communities use Signed Languages in baseball. Outside of Deaf communities, they are not sign language. Language by definition requires grammar structure, cultural information, foundation of linguistic, etc.
They are using pidgin is the word you are looking for. Baseball use pidgins, they don't use sign languages. It is an important distinctive because one is actual language and other are not.
- anonAndOn 5y agoIn the context of play calling, it matters not. Both are terse, coded messages that may or may not resemble ASL.
- supportlocal4h 5y agoThe vast majority of USians I know do not speak proper English. Nor do they follow the rules of English taught at any of the US schools I attended. Many people fight against this. Others embrace it. You might say that these people speak pidgin. I say it is their native language.
- Isthatablackgsd 5y ago> I know do not speak proper English. Nor do they follow the rules of English taught at any of the US schools I attended. It is not because of people fighting against it. It just that English is damn complicated and not easily to be an expert on it. Written and Spoken English does not have the same discourse style. There are times when I thought I structured it correctly and turns out it not. I am natural-born American and English is my first/second language (ASL is my first). Even English native speakers struggles with it than non-native English user.