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The Struggle of Connection (Why is sign language not universal? (Esperanto…
The Struggle of Connection
Why is sign language not universal?
Esperanto
Invented by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887.
Invented languages
Attempts to standardize spoken languages
American Sign Language History
Not the only sign language in existance
Why not standardize one?
Juan Pablo de Bonet book
ASL is used in Canada
Relationship between sign and spoken language
Brain processes them the same way
Same grammar rules and phonology
Other attempts at invented languages
Occidental and Novial in 1922 and 1928
Proof, in my opinion, that standardized languages do not work
English still is not standardized despite popularity
Ido in 1907
Maybe invented sign languages can work?
International sign isn't really a language
Difficult to learn International sign
International Sign
Not standardized
Other reasons Deaf communities should keep their own language
Some Deaf people don't travel so a standardized sign language would be useless for them
Loss of jokes and stories that don't translate into the new language
Their sign language fits with their culture
untranslatable words