You can't study communication with other species because it oppresses me

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[–]Chipit 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

ASL is weird. It's more like Mandarin Chinese than anything else. And it's American sign language. Other countries have different, mutually incomprehensible languages. Kind of sad, really.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not really that weird when you think about it. We want to think of sign language as being a one to one relationship with whatever the actual spoken language is, but deaf people don't understand the spoken language at all. It's a completely different and separate thing. No surprise it tends to drop verbal conventions that are unnecessary to get across the meaning while developing its own.

The funny thing is French and ASL sign languages are basically the same. While the British sign language is completely different.

Anyway I had an epiphany years ago that ASL was worthless for me to learn unless I somehow have a deaf family member. Besides the deaf community being filled with unpleasant cunts bitter about people who can hear. If by whatever reason I need to communicate with one I can assume they are literate so we can just use the basic shared communication method we already have, writing.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Even if they all started with the same sign language, the way that languages evolve in isolated groups it wouldn’t be long before they were once again mutually incomprehensible. There are dialects of English spoken in England that you would struggle to understand even as a native English English speaker (and I don’t just mean the accent but the actual dialect).

Here’s an example. And here’s what is actually being said

[–]BellaBlue 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Stick a Cockney English, an Appalachian & Creole American in one room and see how well they understand each other.

Add more difficult regional accents for fun 💖

[–]ClassroomPast6178 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Have you ever seen the video of Patrick Stewart speaking in his native West Riding Yorkshire dialect?

[–]BellaBlue 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I have now!