If a person was born deaf, Then what language do they think in?

[VT_SS]

deaf

Rightyo there is a universal language that is spoken at international conferences ect but in most countries they have there own sign language.So effectively australian sign is known as Auslan american sign language is known as ASL and english sign language is know as BSL ect.Whilst some signs around the world can have some similarites,most signs are quite different each country you go to and sometimes can vary between states too.But most importantly deaf people are not stupid they would learn how to talk in there native tounge just like the rest of us minus the hearing part of coarse.In many cases there english and gramma is alot better then a hearing person very smart indaviduals i think.

 

[JMP]

He would have known. Deaf people feel the music. I used to "talk" to a deaf girl at a nightclub on a regular basis via notes and she told me she feels the bass and thats how they dance to the music.

We're talking about an old mitsubishi express that had plenty of vibrations just idling, trust me he didn't know it was on. Nightclub stereos are slightly different to stock stereos in old cars.

 

[JMP]

Do you only know youre awake because your eyes are open? No. What if you woke up in pitch darkness. You are conscious of the fact that you have woken up and can hear your surroundings.

How do you know when youre awake or dreaming? You dont, till you wake up then realise.

I dont see it being any different for a blind person.

Um... ok.... ?

 

[rob_phill]

I remember seeing a doco or movie or something about a figure skater who could feel the music so she knew when to make her moves.

Its an interesting point, like I wonder what language a dog thinks in? They dont have a spoken language do they, but my dog definitely thinks.

Another interesting and totally irrelevant point. I'm colour blind, just standard red/green, and I've been asked before why I don't go at red lights and stop at green ones. Colour blindness means you have trouble distinguishing shades, its not what people imagine it to be, but it poses an interesting point.

If I look at a red light, I can tell you its a red light. I cant guarantee its the same colour that you are seeing, for all I know I am actually seeing a green light. But all my life, people have been pointing at that colour and telling me its red.. so regardless of what colour I am actually seeing, I've always called it red, and its just a normal red traffic light..

Some shades of red or green can blend together and look very similar to me, but not the ones at traffic lights. The worst thing is trying to find one of those flouro yellow balls on a green golf course.. they are invisible to me from any more than about 6 feet away.

The point of that little story? You know what you learn. If you are deaf, you learn to cope in some other way. If you don't have a spoken language to verbalise something in your head, you will still be able to do it. You just wont know you are doing it or how.

If a deaf person reads a book, they can understand what its saying. They may not speak it to themselves in the same way we do, but they must have some internal language or something they can fall back on.. they would understand, read and write english, but it just wouldn't sound like english if they were to try to say it.

Same as my red light, it doesn't matter what colour it really is so long as the end result is that I know its time to stop..

I am colour blind too, but it would seem a bit more so than you. I am unable to 'learn' what a colour looks like, and distinguish one from another. when i close my eyes I can't imagine a colour

with traffic lights I can't tell them apart, I need to actually look at the orientation of the lights to tell me wether to go or stop.

 

[detox_nath83]

^^ stay away from me at lights

wonder what a blind person thinks of their seeing eye dog.. putting a picture together in their mind on feel.
would freak the Sh*t out of me.

 

[DAKSTER]

Proves a point though? You have learnt a different way to cope with it.. you look at orientation not colour.