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Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha
Not to threadjack, but I volunteer on weekends to prepare tax returns for low-income individuals. Last weekend I prepared tax returns for the hearing impaired and many of our customers had interpreters. Anyways, one of the interpreters told me that, for many deaf persons, English is a second language. I told him that I thought deaf persons learned English as their primary language and sign is simply the means of communicating that language. The interpreter laughed at me like I was an ignorant fool. Can you elaborate?
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Haha yea, our primary language is "ASL" as in American Sign Language.. That's why most of deaf people don't really have great English like grammars..