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Deaf Children Invent Language

Posted by michael on from the your-kid-wants-steak dept.

gmuslera writes "According to this story, Nicaraguan deaf kids, without knowing any existing sign language, invented their own language on their own, and it keeps evolving. Is this going in the same way as Varley's The Persistence of Vision?"

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  1. Yes! by Fjornir · · Score: 4, Funny

    I must go to Nicaragua and study this so I can become a neurolingquistic hacker and control all of you with just a few gestures... Muahahahah!

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    1. Re: Yes! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny


      > I must go to Nicaragua and study this so I can become a neurolingquistic hacker and control all of you with just a few gestures... Muahahahah!

      I for one welcome our new Nicaragua-going language-studying neurolinguistic-hacking all-controlling few-gesturing Muahahahahing overlord!

      (What was that you did with your hand just before I said that?)

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    2. Re:Yes! by Amiga+Lover · · Score: 1, Funny

      Now if you can learn to speak perl, I'll be impressed.

      Learn to speak Intercal and I'll just stare dumbfounded.

    3. Re:Yes! by Fjornir · · Score: 4, Funny

      shabangslash yoo ess arslashbee aye enslashpee e ar rell cur pee arr aye en tee spay quo jay a pee atche whacken quo semee

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    4. Re:Yes! by sploo22 · · Score: 2, Funny

      For a minute I thought you were speaking Klingon.

      Perl does tend to have that effect on people. ;)

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  2. Re:Not the first time this has happened by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And that's how France was founded.

  3. Amazing by bryan1945 · · Score: 2, Funny

    that cavemen didn't create an evolving language like a billion years ago.

    oh, wait.

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  4. Re:Why weren't the children taught sign language? by arose · · Score: 4, Funny
    You'll understand this better when you hit 40 or 50 and find yourself walking around muttering under your breath that you don't understand a damned thing kids say these days.
    That's why I communicate in ANSI
    Segmentation fault.
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  5. Arrr... by levell · · Score: 4, Funny

    But does this here new language have Pirate Slang? If not they'll never be good ship-mates. Arrr.

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  6. Re:I knew this kind of language once. by CmdrGravy · · Score: 2, Funny

    A strange yarn ye have spun lad, a hearty crew and bloodthirsty we may be, and sights we have seen on this cruel and endless sea but never will I believe this tale of a man from 19,040 who visited your village.

    Arrr, Ooh Arrr I got a brand new combine harvester ! Arrr

  7. Re:I knew this kind of language once. by Bayleaf · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've heard of ploughing the sea, but I never realised that pirates had to harvest it as well. You learn something new every day.

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  8. old news by mrselfdestrukt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Drunk people have been doing this for years...

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