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If someone is born deaf and blind what language they think in?

  • 04-06-2012 08:17PM
    #1
    pablomakaveli
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    So someone posted this question on facebook and it really got me thinking. Would they even think in the same way as someone who grew up exposed to language?

    Anyone know the answer?


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  • #2
    shopaholic01
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    Mandarin.


  • #3
    membersonly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 479 ✭✭membersonly


    Just images I'd imagine, no words at all..as in abstract shapes, maybe...wait now..shut up!


  • #4
    Tipsy McSwagger
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    Jedward language


  • #5
    MagicMarker
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    Mandarin, obviously.


  • #6
    Pedant
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    Feeling stuff around them with their hands. There have been languages developed for people who are both deaf and blind which involve feeling each others' hands.


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  • #7
    mackeire
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    Braile?


  • #8
    MagicMarker
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    Pedant wrote: »
    Feeling stuff around them with their hands. There have been languages developed for people who are both deaf and blind which involve feeling each others' hands.
    That's handy.


  • #9
    Deus Ex Machina
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    The same "language" as you. Only when you are trying to commit thought to words do you use any particular language.


  • #10
    Nothingbetter2d
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    in klingon actually :rolleyes:


    they klingon to their guide to get about


  • #11
    delta_bravo
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    I wonder can a deaf mute be schizophrenic


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  • #12
    Deus Ex Machina
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    delta_bravo wrote: »
    I wonder can a deaf mute be schizophrenic

    Why's that ol' sport?


  • #13
    Ficheall
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    Deus Ex Machina wrote: »
    Why's that ol' sport?
    Something to do with not being able to hear voices in your head, I'd imagine, is what he's going for...


  • #14
    Duckworth_Luas
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    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    So someone posted this question on facebook and it really got me thinking. Would they even think in the same way as someone who grew up exposed to language?

    Anyone know the answer?
    Whatever language they are thought to communicate in! A person born deaf and blind will learn to think in English, just as they learn to communicate in that language.


  • #15
    Bipolar Joe
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    Deus Ex Machina wrote: »
    The same "language" as you. Only when you are trying to commit thought to words do you use any particular language.

    So, wait, I say full sentences in English in my head. I read this in my head as I typed it with words and sh!t. I'm fairly sure I don't have an imaginary voice in my head.


  • #16
    charlemont
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    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    So someone posted this question on facebook and it really got me thinking. Would they even think in the same way as someone who grew up exposed to language?

    Anyone know the answer?

    I'v often thought that too but in relation to animals also. Its a paradox I'd say.


  • #17
    Scioch
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    Through their other senses they would form an understanding in their mind. Seeing (heyoo) as though they would communicate through touch I'd imagine they would use that sensation to form the bases of their thought, it would be an inner image type of a thing thinking using maps of textures, pressures, temperatures, tastes and smells they have experienced. I suppose.


  • #18
    paddyandy
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    OP .Interesting one alright .Ideas and touch remembered .


  • #19
    Littlehorny
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    You learn a language so you can communicate with others, you dont need a language to talk to yourself!


  • #20
    stovelid
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    I'm not sure but I do know that a doctor would have to shout BAH in their ear with a couple of sadistic nuns looking on, if that's any help.


  • #21
    shopaholic01
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    stovelid wrote: »
    I'm not sure but I do know that a doctor would have to shout BAH in their ear with a couple of sadistic nuns looking on, if that's any help.

    Child of the 70's?


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  • #22
    Duckworth_Luas
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    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    Child of the 70's?
    Where's Grandad?


  • #23
    stovelid
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    Never give a fire a chance.


  • #24
    Toby Take a Bow
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    I'm a little hungover, so this is probably a stupid question, but is there no way to communicate with deaf & blind people? I'm pretty sure that some deaf and blind people have been reasonably successful in society, which must have required some form of communication.


  • #25
    stovelid
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    Toby Take a Bow wrote: »
    I'm a little hungover, so this is probably a stupid question, but is there no way to communicate with deaf & blind people? I'm pretty sure that some deaf and blind people have been reasonably successful in society, which must have required some form of communication.

    Semaphore.


  • #26
    coolbeans
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    Littlehorny wrote: »
    You learn a language so you can communicate with others, you dont need a language to talk to yourself!

    You're not a thinker are you?


  • #27
    Toby Take a Bow
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    stovelid wrote: »
    Semaphore.

    Hmm?


  • #28
    El Weirdo
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    Toby Take a Bow wrote: »
    I'm a little hungover, so this is probably a stupid question, but is there no way to communicate with deaf & blind people? I'm pretty sure that some deaf and blind people have been reasonably successful in society, which must have required some form of communication.
    Helen Keller. Probably the most famous.


  • #29
    Archeron
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    Fascinating link, cheers.


  • #30
    paddyandy
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    Ideas arrive first and become words in our heads .Is that not how it happens ?


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