I don’t think I would play devil’s advocate for this particular guy…
Just saying
Did you know that American sign language is not English? Turns out people who only speak sign language actually communicate in English with an accent and with non-native grammar because they literally speak a different language. Perhaps that’s what we’re seeing here. 🤷♂️
Yeah it’s more like caveman English. Lunch, for example, translates to “eat noon” in ASL.
Sorry but that’s like saying that German is caveman English because they say Mittagessen and Mittag means noon and essen means eat.
I wonder where “same language, different encoding” turns into “new language”
The morse-derived shorthand used by radio enthusiasts might be similar.
Not sure about english specifically, but one of my relatives were in the school for blind and deaf children (or those which are close enough). The problem is they just can’t teach them good enough and every child requires a lot more time that teachers can give. So it requires a lot of time and effort from parents to help them and not every family has resources to do it.
People born deaf have trouble picking up language and their overall development is slower. Be patient.
The enlightened argument “My disability > Your disability, FU”
“I am ASL. You are the Devil” is such a good line
