If a person is born Deaf..... what language do they think in?
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If a person is born Deaf..... what language do they think in?
They think in whatever language they end up learning. If you think about it, nobody really "thinks" in a certain language until they have the ability to learn it by hearing it (usually as a very young baby). It's much harder for the deaf to learn languages but once they do I'm sure they think in that language.
That question actually blew my mind never thought about it.
I just googled most answers seem to say instead of thinking in words they think visually.
The language of love.
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English. :grit:
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Duh. What other language could they think in?Quote:
Originally Posted by Oisterboy
:grit:
i remember when i was a kid, i used to think everyone knew english and thought in english and when they spoke a different language they were just translating from english to that language. but honestly, i dont think they think in any language, they wouldn't know how to pronounce anything, so they must think visually or some crazy other shit going on in there head.
A lot of times when I download a movie with foreign subtitles, I can't help but wonder what English must sound like to people who don't speak English.
When I hear other languages, they all just seem so different to me, I can't imagine not knowing English.
Mind blowing mannnnnnnnn.
i do the same thing. english just seems so simple and everyone should know it, i dont see how people can have trouble learning itQuote:
Originally Posted by Oisterboy
Not true.Quote:
Originally Posted by tiger1526
Wow, que raro que nadie sabe hablar espanol si es tan facil de aprender!
:hmm:
i was joking, and spanish is one of the easier languages to learnQuote:
Originally Posted by Froz
Once again you are wrong. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by tiger1526
Spanish is.... pretty easy to learn, but then again im judging that off of my class grade in highschool.
What came first think or lanuage?
scorpio
think obviously, you cant have a language without thinkingQuote:
Originally Posted by gratscorpio
How does a deaf girl moan?
Like forest gump.Quote:
Originally Posted by illgamez
-on topic- They think in whatever language they were taut first, duh.
But how do you know you are thinking without understanding the language you are thinking in. If your thinking was random gibberish like this phrase"gdfgdfg dfgdfg ffgfg dhfgh sf x h hfd d dfh dhdgt" It wouldn't make much sense unless that was your language.Quote:
Originally Posted by tiger1526
So what came first think or language? So how did language ever become? How did cave men think was it just grunts in their heads? What language do animals think in?
scorpio
Same way you thought as a baby without using words, scorpio.
Sign language o;
The only reason I feel English is semi-easy is because we don't have all those verb conjugations. The verb doesn't change depending upon gender or the size of the group usually, so it seems simpler in that aspect.
But I know we have all kinds of stupid things like "there", "they're" and "their" that most people who speak English natively can't even get right.
Thought came first, most likely. A deaf person who was born deaf doesn't know sound, so they wouldn't think like a normal person. As in, they wouldn't have thoughts in their mind that would come up as sound; it would probably be more along the lines of images and the feeling of things.Quote:
Originally Posted by gratscorpio
Probably more due to apathy than difficulty, though. I can understand they're thinking, if they'res one good way of saying they're then why bother with the other ones when whether yr here or they're it still sounds the same and it's only different in context?Quote:
Originally Posted by Oisterboy
Another thing about English is practically any given word can have more than one definition. I dunno if other languages are like that, but I can imagine that being confusing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oisterboy
I think English is more difficult than a lot of other languages because it's a patchwork of several other languages and we have a lot of borrowing, so our rules don't apply evenly across the board.
Deaf people can think? Wow, that was news to me... I usually just lump them together with blind people, those lacking a limb, trees, and those people burried in the graveyard.
Not but seriously, they probably just think in terms of emotions and stuff, mostly like young children I guess. Until the point that they learn a language, after which they probably start thinking in that language, just without sound, I guess.
Maybe it's like the feeling I get when I'm really into a book, and I'm no longer really seeing the letters anymore, but just images flashing across my mind.
The real question is, what voice do people who are mute hear in their heads when they are thinking to themselves?
Thoughts...Quote:
Originally Posted by Siigari
the real quiestion is what to do people born blind dream about?Quote:
Originally Posted by Heroshi
mind blown lolQuote:
Originally Posted by djfizzle
Somewhat related: http://web.archive.org/web/200608311...19fr_archive01Quote:
Originally Posted by djfizzle
Read that. You can thank me later.
this article is really cool
+reps
edit: or rather *tries to +rep and can't because he has already done so too much*
I've often thought about the idea myself, about what it might be like to live as a blind or colour-blind person for a day, and vice versa (because I know two guys who are colour-blind, actually). It's kind of hard to imagine, even, really. Sight is, after all, sucha fundamental thing for me. I wonder how a blind person would feel taking my place. "OH HEY I CAN SEE. BUT WAIT, NOW I HAVE PROBLEMS TALKING. ****" XD
If you're speaking broken spanish, that is.Quote:
Originally Posted by tiger1526
Remember that every verb has different conjugations that depends on the context. Also, spanish words have gender, unlike english ones. For example: "el barco" (the ship), "el" is used when referring to males. Whereas in english you just say "the" (no gender attached).
Many people believe that spanish is really easy, but that's because they're not doing it right.
We're comparing english and spanish here, so I'm not sure why you brought other languages up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squeak2
Either way, the point of my previous statement was to clarify that no language should be labelled as easy, considering they all have a different degree of difficulty. Spanish is my native language, and even then I'm continually learning new things about it, whether it is new words or grammatical rules.
Remember that language is constantly changing, therefore it is virtually impossible to master.
In other words, no language is easy. People who say so are just grasping the basic things of it.