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| Cubelands, you have no idea. |
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| DrenDran:
--- Quote from: Stocking on August 07, 2011, 08:37:11 AM ---You aren't born knowing how to speak, everything you say until you're teens is what you've heard other people say. Expressions that you hear are things you commit to memory. When you're little, that's how you learn to speak and sound fluent, because you're constantly picking up one what people are saying around you and to a huge extent, what you hear on television. This is why children say bad words when they watch dirty programming, they're imitating what they hear and trying to find where it fits in their immature lexicon that eventually evolves into their dialect. Being deaf completely robs you of that experience. You never, ever hear anyone talk. You never pick up things in conversation, no colloquialisms, expressions, nothing. Everything he's heard in his life has been through sign language or text, and since we don't learn to read until after we've learned to speak, he's behind. He never learned to speak, the only people that can communicate with him are family members and the like that know sign language, he doesn't use speech in his day-to-day activities and is completely incapable of building on his dialect because it doesn't exist. While we read text as speech, to him it's raw information, bland, inhuman data. The fact that you could be so unempathetic to that is downright revolting. Yeah he's an ass, but ripping on him for his grammar is just as bad as saying "HAHA UR DEFF LOOOOL", it's disgusting. --- End quote --- Once again, I don't really care about his terriable grammar. I'm saying that while he might not have expirenced voice, he has been around text for most of his life. He should have picked up on a few things in the over a year he's been here, and any other online communities he's been a part of beforehand. It's just as personal as text, and Furling has shown that he can understand it perfectly so there's no excuse for not learning something from it. |
| Stocking:
--- Quote from: DrenDran on August 07, 2011, 09:23:07 AM ---I'm saying that while he might not have expirenced voice, he has been around text for most of his life. He should have picked up on a few things in the over a year he's been here, and any other online communities he's been a part of beforehand. It's just as personal as text, and Furling has shown that he can understand it perfectly so there's no excuse for not learning something from it. --- End quote --- Yes there is, your brain isn't wired to read, speaking comes natural but literacy is a man-made construct. It's a completely different concept, you just don't learn to speak that way. Yes he can understand, but he can't learn from it in the same way we learn to speak from hearing the language. |
| DrenDran:
--- Quote from: Stocking on August 07, 2011, 09:25:54 AM ---Yes there is, your brain isn't wired to read, speaking comes natural but literacy is a man-made construct. It's a completely different concept, you just don't learn to speak that way. Yes he can understand, but he can't learn from it in the same way we learn to speak from hearing the language. --- End quote --- I can learn from text without needing to hear it or read it aloud. If you're saying he can't do something unrealted to being unable to hear... because he is deaf, you better provide some proof or reasoning. |
| SkullCandy:
He's a secret spy from that game, Cubelands, and he's trying to annoy us! SOLVED! :D |
| Alkatjo:
Problem solved. |
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