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I'm fascinated by your last point. Are you saying that being deaf impedes your written communication ? As a layman I would have thought that written communicati

• madeofpalk 5y ago
  I'm not deaf and/or use sign language, but I have modes where I prefer speaking rather than written text. I would presume deaf people would be the same for their more personal and expressive communication.
• pornel 5y ago
  Sign languages aren't English-but-via-hands (even American and British sign languages). They have their own unique vocabulary and grammar. For native speakers of a sign language, English is a foreign language.
• blindseer 5y ago
  I think you may not appreciate how intertwined your verbal cognitive skills are with your ability to think / type / communicate.
  • 10u152 5y ago
    Absolutely. That’s why I asked
• mywittyname 5y ago
  I am not deaf, but a family member of mine is a studied American Sign Language in college and worked as an interpreter and we've discussed this topic a few times at length. Some interesting take-aways I have from discussing this: * Sign language communication is very different. We can speak with our mouths much faster than we can manipulate our hands, so fewer words are used. I have to imagine this means that the words that are used are far more significant. * Names are interesting. Most people names don't have signs, and signing every letter would be annoying, so apparently people get nicknames made up of descriptive words. So, you might go by "tall mustache" in normal conversation, but you're 10u152 in writing. People wouldn't write the same way they would sign. ASL is a completely different language and direct translations to written English modifies the meaning of a lot of statements.