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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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 itOriginally Posted by Oisterboy
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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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If you're speaking broken spanish, that is.
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.
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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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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?
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.
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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.
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the real quiestion is what to do people born blind dream about?
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Somewhat related: http://web.archive.org/web/200608311...19fr_archive01
Read that. You can thank me later.
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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. ****"
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