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Oh well- reading the Gallaudet  sheet- it doesn't say there were SIGNS as understood today- back thousands of years ago.. It does mention Socrates comment of then view of "deaf condition". A bit later-Old/New Testament- no mention that the "deaf" were using SIGN COMMUNICATION( Jewish/Hebrew/Greek?) then. Nor is there mention about say the Middles Ages.  I understand that there was NO public education either. Apparently started about 200-300? years ago. Yeah NO even  books then- handprinted parchments. I recall a discussion in VampireFreaks.Com  was the Bible read by everyone even though books didn't exist-just goat skins/parchments-hand written? Plus the slight problem how much could people read without much schooling.

Of course,fingerspellng the alphabet is not exactly what is meant by ASL. Was that-ASL etc what the French devised? Not exactly clear-however relevant to today's discussion of ASL being a "culture"? Was it so described 200 years ago that way?

With the introduction of "public education' back whenever? and trying to "educate the deaf' to speak rather than use ASL-only. Thus that ongoing discussion to this day,Appliciable around the world?


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