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Isn't sign language less efficient than typing? Are there conditions where you are on a video call with a keyboard in front of you, where you prefer to use sign
by hirundo 3y ago
Isn't sign language less efficient than typing? Are there conditions where you are on a video call with a keyboard in front of you, where you prefer to use sign language over typing? Or is the use case when you're away from a keyboard? Would it help to have text-to-speech built into the video software?
- Affric 3y agoMy understanding is that deaf people far prefer signing. For deaf people it’s easier to both sign and to read signs than writing. Language emerged from gesture and it’s these people’s native form of communication.
- wck0 3y agoWhat's your point? The same can be said with regards to oral communication. People who communicate in sign language do so in a very expressive way, a way that pure text cannot capture. You should go out of your way to experience this for yourself.
- hirundo 3y agoMy point is that I'm ignorant on the subject but interested and so am asking questions to learn about it.
- hgsgm 3y agoDo you use audio/video chat? Why don't you type instead?
- hirundo 3y agoI personally prefer text to voice in most situations, and work intensively with several colleagues who feel the same at least for work. But I'm an introvert and recluse and recognize that this isn't normal.
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- wck0 3y agoAnd you won't get any enlightening information via text chat like this. Go experience sign language.
- emptysongglass 3y agoThe person asked a question with curiosity and you chose not once but twice to respond rudely.
- wck0 3y agoIt is ableism wearing the mask of curiosity.
- kiba 3y agoSign language is not English.