LL-L "Language varieties" 2007.05.04 (03) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L  -  04 May 2007 - Volume 03

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From: Andrys Onsman <Andrys.Onsman at calt.monash.edu.au>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.05.03 (05) [E]

From: Andrys Onsman
To: Sandy and Jonny
Re: Signing

Here are some comments from my brother, who worked for a time in "The
Theatre of the Deaf" in Australia, after I sent on your earlier posting:

I've been doing lots of thinking about some of what Sandy's talking about.

I certainly can see the parallels between juggling and signing - no
surprise there. Interestingly, I tried to teach a group of people deaf
from birth how to juggle and they were as hopeless as hearing people. I
suspect a history of juggling (and maybe magic, in the sense of
prestidigitation) may help a person become adept at signing but that
might be as far as the link goes. I certainly know that coming to sign
language from mime made both the conceptual learning easier (as in being
familiar with a structured gesture language) and more especially made
the physical tasks easier (as in making fingers and hands do the
necessary stretching, bending and holding).

I don't know how much of my blog you read, but there's some pertinent
stuff in my post at http://www.onsman.com/?p=34. This touches on the
weird postion of the SL interpreter.

Best wishes
Andrys

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