Over heated and out of control!
Your location shows to be a "swamp"....Maybe more aptly stated as a "morass".
I am not overly impressed with "academics" or "professors" who Know everything about something or nothing.
Be assured, as long as the blogs remain genteel and polite, inasmuch as is humanly possible, I shall remain on board and on topic.
If your jaw has "hit the ground" (as you stated), maybe you needed a "shock treatment".
I keep hearing about "made up", "manufactured", "contrived" sign systems. Haven't you?
See1, See2, Cued Speech, NZSL and on and on, ad nauseum, ad infinitum. All of them
are as stated.
But, ASL, is another "made up", "manufactured", "contrived" system, developed NOT in the USA, but in France!
The original and basic signs are French, not English.
Across the nation, ASL is fragmented, non-standardized, with local and regionalized signs, fraught with colocialisms and "home" signs.
What one sign communicates in one place fails to hold true for another.
A sign, used in an academic setting, can have a completely different meaning in a medical setting, or one is conscripted to finger spelling.
Not so with SEE1 Or maybe SEE2, or others(?), especially SEE1/MSS, with an over 50,000 signable English vocabulary!
At last glance, it appears that SEE2 has met an untimely demise. It's last update was
August of 2009, with nothing newer listed on its website. Anyone have newer, better information on SEE2?
So, the next time I hear/see any more misinformation about any sign system as being "made up", "manufactured" or "contrived", just remember that ASL, too, is a "made up", "manufactured" and "contrived" system.
Now, speaking of academia, where is the list of Doctorate Degree graduates, achieved by prelingually deaf people, from highly esteemed universities (ie: Gallaudet, etc.) ?
You can count them on one hand, maybe two. The others are all hearing, post-lingual or deafened, all with a command of English and well socialized.
At my last tally, some 20 years back, I was hard pressed to identify many, just few.
Maybe, today, you can do better, so PLEASE help me, update me, with your own empirical research.
You may be able to help me to learn a bit more than I now do.
Hammond Ham
