Anyone think they can answer this?

Urza · Jul 21, 2010

In sign language, generally.

Seems pretty obvious to me.

haflore · Jul 22, 2010

In pictures, I would suppose.

CamulaHikari · Jul 22, 2010

Agree with the sign language. But I think that, since deaf people can learn to read, they maybe think in words as well, but like how we think with the sound of the words they just see the letters.

ProtoKun7 · Jul 22, 2010

[quote name='Urza' post='2997008' date='Jul 21 2010, 11:58 PM']In sign language, generally.

Seems pretty obvious to me.[/quote]
I also thought this.

dbkdbk · Jul 22, 2010

haha, i agree with Haflore,
theres also the possibility that theyll just develop some sort of own language in their head, or anything that just communicates any sort of message.
oh, and theres something thats been bugging me for a while.
is sign language a language itself, or is it something to represent a language?

jgu1994 · Jul 22, 2010

But that just wouldn't make sense. It's hard to explain in words why but it just doesn't make sense to me.

The Pi · Jul 22, 2010

They don't think

I'd say visually which would also includes sign language.

basher11 · Jul 22, 2010

straight from google because im lazy

Can you think without language? Answer: Nope, at least not at the level humans are accustomed to. That's why deafness can have far more serious consequences than blindness, developmentally speaking. The blind suffer many hardships, not the least of which is the inability to read in the usual manner. But even those sightless from birth acquire language by ear without difficulty in infancy, and having done so lead relatively ordinary lives. A congenitally deaf child isn't so lucky: unless someone realizes very early that he's not talking because he can't hear, his grasp of communication may never progress beyond the rudiments.

Depravo · Jul 22, 2010

Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.

Urza · Jul 22, 2010

[quote name='dbkdbk' post='2997028' date='Jul 21 2010, 03:08 PM']is sign language a language itself, or is it something to represent a language?[/quote]
It is a language itself.

But that just wouldn't make sense. It's hard to explain in words why but it just doesn't make sense to me.

The way that a deaf person thinks is probably incomprehensible to someone who isn't deaf.

jgu1994 · Jul 22, 2010

[quote name='Depravo' post='2997034' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:10 AM']Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.[/quote]
But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.

Depravo · Jul 22, 2010

[quote name='jgu1994' post='2997036' date='Jul 22 2010, 12:11 AM'][quote name='Depravo' post='2997034' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:10 AM']Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.[/quote]
But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.
[/quote]
So?

CamulaHikari · Jul 22, 2010

[quote name='jgu1994' post='2997036' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:11 AM'][quote name='Depravo' post='2997034' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:10 AM']Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.[/quote]
But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.
[/quote]
That's true but maybe they see the words (in letters) when they think, like reading a book?

haflore · Jul 22, 2010

[quote name='jgu1994' post='2997036' date='Jul 21 2010, 06:11 PM'][quote name='Depravo' post='2997034' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:10 AM']Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.[/quote]
But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.
[/quote]
Then in subtitles, like a movie.

gamefreak94 · Jul 22, 2010

[quote name='haflore' post='2997043' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:12 AM'][quote name='jgu1994' post='2997036' date='Jul 21 2010, 06:11 PM'][quote name='Depravo' post='2997034' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:10 AM']Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.[/quote]
But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.
[/quote]
Then in subtitles, like a movie.
[/quote]I couldn't agree more.

sputnix · Jul 22, 2010

[quote name='Depravo' post='2997039' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:12 AM'][quote name='jgu1994' post='2997036' date='Jul 22 2010, 12:11 AM'][quote name='Depravo' post='2997034' date='Jul 22 2010, 01:10 AM']Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.[/quote]
But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.
[/quote]
So?
[/quote]
When a person speaks you also think the word at the same time, like when you mouth words you still hear what your saying because your thinking it.
When a person is deaf, very rarely will they lose all hearing capabilities, so after a very long period they can learn a language thus they are able to think it.
And besides it would be impossible to learn sign language if they can't hear the word it means

ProtoKun7 · Jul 22, 2010

[quote name='jgu1994' post='2997029' date='Jul 22 2010, 12:08 AM']But that just wouldn't make sense. It's hard to explain in words why but it just doesn't make sense to me.[/quote]
Even if you could they wouldn't be able to hear your explanation.

retKHAAAN · Jul 22, 2010

i believe the deaf think using images. it be kind of silly to picture 2 hands signing in your head.

Gore · Jul 22, 2010

I was thinking about this before, not about deaf but wondering how someone would think without words, we need words to think..

Wabsta · Jul 22, 2010

Well, I kinda asked myself this once. And I got to know that most women I know think visualy.

I, myself, think in words, but some girl friends found this weird, cause they always think in visuals.

So I guess deaf people think visually too.

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