The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #35425 Message #484458
Posted By: mousethief
15-Jun-01 - 03:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: Minority languages
Subject: RE: BS: Minority languages
Sign language isn't universal. ASL has a lot of signs which are composed of the first letter of the object/action in English. Presumably somebody from a non-English speaking country wouldn't "read" these signs the way an English-speaker would.