Introduction to American Sign Language Writing by Robert Arnold

Presented by Robert Arnold.

What is American Sign Language writing, and what is it for? Watch the vlog to find out.

Produced and Directed by Jules Dameron of Damname Productions.

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[MyManOWarSmiles]

Hallo Bob, Wie geht es?

I think it's is a good idea, I left your classes just when you had barely started this journey, and I have one major question. Are you suggesting that the Deaf Community forgo learning how to read and write English and learn this instead, or learn them simultaneously?

Hoping you are well,

Me.

[spiderman13ful]

I checked and looked at it. I call this ... true language for the Deaf.

[BBarNavi]

P.S. It can also help the hearing community realize that ASL is not English. If they see a whole different script instead of English words, they'll conceptualize it as a foreign language - which it is!

[BBarNavi]

(cont'd) Now, personally, as a hearing person who grew up bilingual and bi-literate with English and Chinese, your script has helped me conceptualize and learn ASL much better. I'm already used to pictographic representations of concepts (上下日月 etc.) in my native script, so seeing pictographs of ASL was much easier for me to comprehend than English gloss. I support your mission 100%, and I absolutely wish you the best! (I must also commend your use of 人 as "person".)

[BBarNavi]

(cont'd) Now, I have noticed that most of your opponents in this comment section favor English writing only... yet their English is rather poor in the first place! That makes one wonder if they are in a position of authority to say their piece in the first place. It was the same case in medieval Korea: The elites favored Classical Chinese as the only acceptable writing system, but they weren't too good at it because it simply wasn't their native language. (Nor, for that matter, was it anyone's.)

[BBarNavi]

I've heard Sequoya mentioned. Does anyone here know who King Sejong is? He composed an alphabet that was largely featural (it represented sound articulation on paper) in order to solve the literacy problem in medieval Korea. It was faced with massive opposition from the elite literati, and it was even banned by his descendant! In the 19th century, Korea saw an intellectual revival that favored using this alphabet, which we now call Hangul. Now both Koreas enjoy near-perfect literacy rates (98%).

[BeautifulSilentWorld]

hi, im Ally, i go university DHH high school, nd i think this good because i hate try nd switch grammer and thnk what words go where when wrighting english. people read my work and thinking i am not eduacated because seeing my grammer is bad! i have come up with some written fingerspelling alphabets and i like the idea very much!

[Russell5892]

@MrKTJW5685 In AD 450, English was not a written language. It was a spoken language. Most Anglo-Saxons and others though that a written form of English was ridiculous. In 1809, Cherokee was not a written language. There's no such thing as a written language.

All languages change with changing times and all languages are capable of being represented in secondary media.

If you want to see resources which show the cognitive benefits of written sign language, I'd be happy to give you the links.

[MrKTJW5685]

To be honest,

We been studying English since per-school, and what is the point of us learning ASL written language? Also, I understand that this would benefit the deaf culture but remember, the land that we are standing is surrounded by English-speaking country.

But once again, ASL isn't written communication, it is visual communication.

[jproffer1]

If they've copyrighted the language, I would HIGHLY recommend that NOBODY USE IT! They will demand license fees from everyone.