ForumsThe TavernIf you're born deaf what language do you think in?

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Crouchbite
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I mean seriously this is been on my mind for awhile and I can't get it out.

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razgrizfly
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you make up your own language

BlackVortex
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Ask a deaf person?

jdoggparty
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You would simply think of feelings and pictures.

snipershot325
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You would simply think of feelings and pictures.


Yep you would never have heard any language so thats all you would think.
goumas13
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If you don't become totally deaf until after you've acquired language you think in whatever spoken language you have learned.
If the child was born with no ability to hear whatsoever, the person will think in Sign.

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If you don't become totally deaf until after you've acquired language you think in whatever spoken language you have learned.
If the child was born with no ability to hear whatsoever, the person will think in Sign.
yeah and u could still speak but probably loud
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If they can read at least one language, they probably think in that language, only in written form.

Thinking in sign language probably takes a lot of extra motion in your thoughts, so I'd think thinking in text form would be the easier way of doing it.

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Well I think you would still think in English, since that's what your going to be speaking in. Well not English, but like whatever your family speaks, even though you can't hear it.

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I think you would think in pictures and feelings, not so much in words anyway, we don't really think in words that much anyway, unless we are planning a conversation,

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Well I think you would still think in English,


English isn't the worlds universal language, if anything it would be the Latin language that they would think in.



Also they have to think in some form of language because how else would they be able to lip read?
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If they can read at least one language, they probably think in that language, only in written form.


yes, but if they have never heard a language, what do they think in? i know that i myself and probably many toher think in their spoken language, not in writing. as stated above, it would probabably just be feelings, pictures, smells, touch, five senses stuff,emotions,etc.
Saving123
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English isn't the worlds universal language, if anything it would be the Latin language that they would think in.

I corrected myself, sort of read the whole post, or at least acknowledge it.
Well not English, but like whatever your family speaks, even though you can't hear it.
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but deaf people can read so then how does that work

Crouchbite
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Wow, I know this off topic but this got a lot more views and posts then I really thought there was going to be. Thank you everybody.

Crouchbite
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Well I think you would still think in English, since that's what your going to be speaking in. Well not English, but like whatever your family speaks, even though you can't hear


But you learn what your family speaks by listening to them speak it. So if you couldn't hear them you wouldn't speak like them.
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