If a person is born Deaf..... what language do they think in?
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Here is a question for you Onrpg.
If a person is born Deaf..... what language do they think in?
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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.
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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.
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The language of love.
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English.
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Duh. What other language could they think in?Originally Posted by Oisterboy
English.
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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.
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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.
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i do the same thing. english just seems so simple and everyone should know it, i dont see how people can have trouble learning it
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Not true.
Wow, que raro que nadie sabe hablar espanol si es tan facil de aprender!
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i was joking, and spanish is one of the easier languages to learnNot true.
Wow, que raro que nadie sabe hablar espanol si es tan facil de aprender!
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Once again you are wrong.
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Spanish is.... pretty easy to learn, but then again im judging that off of my class grade in highschool.
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What came first think or lanuage?
scorpio
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think obviously, you cant have a language without thinking
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How does a deaf girl moan?
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Like forest gump.
-on topic- They think in whatever language they were taut first, duh.
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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.
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
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Same way you thought as a baby without using words, scorpio.
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Sign language o;
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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.
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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.
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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?
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