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Sign languages can spring up when you put a bunch of deaf kids together without any adults who know how to sign. This happens much more often than the analogous
by idlewords 12y ago
Sign languages can spring up when you put a bunch of deaf kids together without any adults who know how to sign. This happens much more often than the analogous situation for spoken language.
- ars 12y ago> This happens much more often than the analogous situation for spoken language. Citation needed. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptophasia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptophasia The analogous situation for spoke language simply doesn't happen as often. But there is nothing special about sign language here, the creation of language is the same either way.
- idlewords 12y ago"The analogous situation for spoke language simply doesn't happen as often." That's exactly the point I made in the comment you are replying to. It's like we're speaking different languages.
- ars 12y agoSounds that way doesn't it? But the word order changes the meaning. I'm saying kids alone doesn't happen as often. You were saying (or it seemed like you were saying) that kids creating a new spoken language doesn't happen as often.