Article 4349. About ”American Sign Language” and Parse Syntax by Anna Von Reitz It’s not what you think.When people say “sign language” we think of the hand signals pioneered by teachers of the deaf as a way to communicate without verbalizations, but there is another meaning to the words “American Sign Language” which literally conceives of language as symbol groups akin to business signs or Hieroglyphs. This form of “American Sign Language” is the new cover for an old evil known as “Dog Latin”.The essence of Dog Latin is to use Latin grammar and style conventions and English words (or words from any other language) to cobble together what appears… Read More
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