[Corpora-List] Meta Question regarding sentiment/opinion/reputation was Re: Campagne d=?windows-1252?Q?=92=E9tiquetage_?=en sentiments de tweets et blogs

[Angus Grieve-Smith]

On 11/19/2012 9:49 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
> Most people who use a sign language can also read a language
> that is spoken.  So they would probably find or invent some
> sign to express the ideas they learned through reading.

     This is off-topic, but it depends what you mean by "read" and by 
"most."  In my research I've seen Deaf people with very low reading 
abilities in spoken languages.  As I understand it, they are 
representative of the majority of Deaf people, even in literate 
countries like the United States.

     More on topic, in American Sign Language and Mexican Sign Language, 
there are major differences between ad hoc borrowings and fully 
lexicalized signs, and the lexicalized signs don't always correspond to 
what signers may have been reading.  So Trevor's point about this 
unnamed sign language is valid: the fact that it distinguishes between 
the three concepts is evidence that the distinction is not confined to 
one community.

-- 
				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
				grvsmth at panix.com


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