In the sense that written languages are mirrors of spoken languages, which in most cases they are to a certain extent, this is true.
Nevertheless, it won't help the deaf man who wants to know what "boarish" is in ASL, even though he's literate in English.
Mark
On 27/08/05, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
However, a spoken language written alphabetically used for glosses will require that any given deaf person learn said spoken language before being able to read a text.
I don't see why that's true at all.
-Mark
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