[Ashley]

It’s good you understand that ASL is a recognized language – but what you don’t know is, that the syntax of ASL is different from English. If you know Spanish, then you could compare ASL syntax as being very similar to that of Spanish. In ASL, the ‘little’ words are eliminated, being unneccessary. I’ll give you an example of English and ASL: English: Johnny went to the store and is home now. ASL: Johnny finish go store, now home. Looks more like the ‘written’ ASL you were talking about,doesn’t it? I write English so well because I read so much. Don’t be upset that the Deaf people seem to have that snotty attitude – it’s not entirely their fault. When you consider that the majority of deaf schools teach in such a way that their English is compromised, and they actually learn at a lower rate than that of their hearing peers…. Reading, most deaf kids graduating from high school have a reading level of maybe the 3rd or 4th grade. Any other questions? 🙂

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Name : Ashley, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : Deaf, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 24, City : St. Augustine, State : FL, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class, 

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