<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Ingvild Wrote:<br><br>"Norwegian SL is not like ASL, there is not a lot of fingerspelling.
Borrowing from Norwegian spoken lanugage is mostly done by mouthing."<br><br>My experience:<br><br>When I was in the hospital as a counselor last week, I was working with communication blended between lipreading, English, ASL, and Pidgin Sign Language.<br><br>With that kind of system I need all of the modes of communication I can get. <br><br>I used what sign language I could augmented by mouthed English, fingerspelling, Pidgin, and mime, and I know that SW can write them all. I was using all of them at once, and "communication" was the goal, not which language. <br><br>My friend is born Deaf, and is fluent in English and ASL, and fingerspelling, and Pidgin. Had I tried to transcribe our conversation I think I would have gotten very lost.<br><br>Charles<br><br><br><br>Charles Butler<br>
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