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From: Christine.Selfe@p0.f147.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Christine Selfe)
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Subject: Re: Sign language  Part 2
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Date: 10 Oct 90 03:02:24 GMT
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Ilearned Sign language when I entered in Gallaudet .
Having grown up in an area where I was the only deaf person I had ever 
met... meeting all these other deafies like myself was a shocking 
experience to say the least.
I still have some trouble with signs even though it has been ten years 
or more now since.. but I can say that my receptive skills are much 
better than my  sign skills themselves. One thing I have noticed is that 
when i  use sim comm (voice and sign both) My signs are L O U S Y and 
much slwoer than when i  simply sign without voice. Part of the reason 
for this is that when one uses voice they are in reality speaking two 
languages at the same time.  A feat i'd like to see  some hearing people 
do with voice.

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