Because we only recently stopped telling parents not to teach it to hard of hearing children.
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1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 10 months agoThat’s awful. I don’t know why sign language isn’t made into an official state language that everyone has to learn some basic amount of proficiency
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
littlewonder@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Amen! And it would benefit literally everybody. You can communicate across a room or in loud environments. It’s so useful!
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 10 months ago
But then other people could listen to what we’re saying!
superminerJG@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This gets me wondering: In sign languages, are there different words for “hearing” (i.e. looking someone sign to you) vs “seeing” (i.e. looking at something that isn’t signing?