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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#00681c">Hellinckx Luc</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span></span><span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Sign language"</span></p>
<br>Beste Sandy,<div><br><div><div>You wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>> In tegenstelling tot wat vaak gedacht wordt, bestaat er geen universele
gebarentaal. Gebarentalen verschillen van land tot land, en van streek tot
streek. Zo is het gebaar voor 'klein' anders in West-Vlaanderen dan in
Antwerpen. Ook het Vlaamse en Waalse gebaar voor dat woord verschillen van
elkaar. De Vlaamse gebarentaal (VGT) is de moedertaal van ongeveer zesduizend
Vlamingen en wordt daarnaast ook gebruikt door 26.000 à 30.000 horende mensen.<br><br></div>How can it be that five times as many hearing people use VGT as there are native signers? What are they all using it for?<br></div>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Not
sure at all, but I think family cohesion is still stronger in Belgium
than in England. No man is an island, so maybe those other users are
family members, relatives or even coworkers.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding
another difference between England and Belgium: there's the English
trademark, called "democracy" on the one hand and a certain marriage
that has been getting a lot of attention lately on the other...not in
the least because the girl in case is not a "noblewoman". Maybe it's
just me, but...does that rhyme?</div><div><br></div><div>Off the record: maybe does...in an effort to "prove" that "anybody" can access the Queen's mansion.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind greetings,</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</div></font></div></div><a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank"></a><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
----------</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></p>
Subject:Sign language<br><br>A deaf fellow passenger on a bus I regularly ride talks to himself in American Sign Language. I was surprised at first, but then it made sense. If you do talk to yourself (which these days is not always obvious, what with all the new "invisible" phone gadgets) you might as well do it in sign language if you know it.<br>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center">
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