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How do deaf people think?

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Dr.Dank
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It just popped into my head one day. How do deaf people think? For those of you who say, Just like people who can hear; think about it. When we think, we have sort of conversations with ourselves and we hear the words. Do they picture things or is it just silence?




This is to mean no offense to anyone.
Jun 15 2006 2:50PM
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eheath
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They think with their brain, weird huh?
Jun 15 2006 8:06PM
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Dr.Dank
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You never know if its a prank call. Then if you dont want to talk say its your dad and that youre not home
Jun 15 2006 8:11PM
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Dr.Dank
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You never know if its a prank call. Then if you dont want to talk say its your dad and that youre not home
Jun 15 2006 8:11PM
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jimmychung
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they picture sign language in their minds! whoa..
Jun 15 2006 8:26PM
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underflipped
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why is he an idiot? my school has a mainstreem program for deaf people, and i know that they dream in sign language... but if thats true, then they cannot think in words, if they dont know them,

good question
Jun 15 2006 8:37PM
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Mat.
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dumbass, CLEARLY THEY KNOW ENGLISH CONSIDERING SIGN LANGAUGE REPRESENTS THE WORDS/LANGUAGE THEY CANT PRONOUCE/SPEAK PROPERLY SINCE THEY CANT HEAR THEM RIGHT HENCE WHY THEY CANT SAY IT RIGHT CUZ THEY DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT IT PROPERLY SOUNDS LIKE.


oooooooomggggggggggg
Jun 15 2006 10:44PM
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steevner
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Q: why couldn't hellen keller drive?














A:She's a woman!!!
Jun 15 2006 10:46PM
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Mat.
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LAUGH OUT LOUD.....
Jun 15 2006 10:48PM
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brogilvie
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Hahhahah.!!! Thats the funniest thing I've seen, read, thought, discovered and heard )after I repeated it to myself) today. Congratulations.
Jun 15 2006 10:52PM
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LJF
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with there head
Jun 15 2006 10:54PM
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Anathema
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certainly not out loud..
Jun 15 2006 10:56PM
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anti_bunk
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why cant helen keller drive?





shes a woman
Jun 15 2006 10:57PM
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brogilvie
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hahha,... what did she get for christmas...

Ahh, I cant say its too mean.
Jun 15 2006 11:01PM
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underflipped
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its humurous how ignorant people like you can be. first of all consider what words are- representations of an object. i say table and that correlates with a table. yet deaf people do not have this connection. they SIGN table, which correlates to table. they may spell and know words, but as far as sounds, they do not know this. so i pose this question to you, how can they think in sound? which is what the original question is. they cannot think in words or letters, for htis is impossible. therefore they must think in sign.

by the way caps was unnecisary, we can see how stupid you are without them
Jun 16 2006 11:45AM
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d-loc
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they still know how to speak in sign, so why cant they think words you DUMBASS

they can form sentences just like a normal person, thus they can think to themselves just fine
Jun 16 2006 11:49AM
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underflipped
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so there going to see words in there head? doesnt work like that
Jun 16 2006 11:50AM
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Chubby.Chaser
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you're calling mat ignorant?

i think he may have a one-up on you in terms of knowledge about being deaf and all that stuff
Jun 16 2006 11:50AM
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d-loc
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i did say see, i said think... and i guess you know all. why dont you go ask a deaf person? well why not?
Jun 16 2006 11:58AM
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underflipped
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i go to school with them asshole.. my school has a mainstreem program. i have asked. think about it. you think words your actually hearing them in yoru head. deaf people dont know what they sound like.. so they cant do that.
Jun 16 2006 11:59AM
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d-loc
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so what did they reply?
ur probably one arent you.
and some can speak, well actually ALL can speak but can u understand?
Jun 16 2006 12:05PM
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Dr.Dank
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Wow you're a real jerk. Do you ever have anything constuctive to say?







I got a haircut today
Jun 17 2006 1:37PM
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Mat.
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yeah amen cam, as if he just called a deaf person ignorant, AS IF i wouldnt know anything about being deaf...
Jun 17 2006 1:48PM
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SteveStepp
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im deaf and i can still think. i wasnt born deaf though
Jun 17 2006 1:55PM
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TheQuailman
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i wish i was blind so i woodnt hav to see this stupid thread
Jun 17 2006 5:41PM
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CooksCorner
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Not really. It just an undeveloped thought. I think what he was getting at is the question posed by Orwell in his novel 1984. Orwell asked (indirectly of course) whether people could have thoughts, feelings, and emotions if they had no words with which to express them...an intresting question indeed.

Can you feel angry if you have no word for or concept of anger?...
Jun 17 2006 6:13PM
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Dr.Dank
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Coming from the kid who made the infamous "Boning a girl while dancing" thread.


I wish you would shut up because your in 8th grade.
Jun 17 2006 6:17PM
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Mat.
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yeah i agree, noone wants to see grade 8's around.
Jun 17 2006 6:41PM
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Luc.
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they proabally think.."man is this kid an idiot"
Jun 17 2006 6:48PM
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zerospinskier
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does no one where know what google is?
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/031226.html
theyre brains are completely differnet.
Jun 17 2006 7:15PM
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Dr.Dank
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whats google?
Jun 17 2006 7:20PM
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zerospinskier
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aww no way dude. www.google.com. its soooo ill. u can type shit in, and like it shows all the sites that relate to what ur looking for. like song lyrics, car stuff, bike stuff, ski stuff, porn. etc. u name it, that have it! u gotta try it. its soooooo sick. i think it was invented like a couple months ago. i see it gettin pretty big.
Jun 17 2006 7:29PM
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iskilibertys
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how retarded can you be? yes some, not all, deaf people can speak. they can do that because they have spent days with a speach trainer to tell them when the word is said correctly. form there their vocal cords are trained (muscle memory) to do a certain thing when they try to say they word, thus making it sound similar to if you or i said it. they still cant hear the fucking word though dumbass. theyre deaf! they can speak it merely because of muscle memory, but they dont know how it sounds when it comes out their mouth. and they cannot think in speech patterns as we do because they dont know how the words sound, they think in emotions as Tormentor said. And he was one, so trust him over you anyday smartass. so fucking ignorant
Jun 17 2006 7:38PM
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ghetto_balla
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its just like thinking in a different language...like a fukin foreigner or som e shit
Jun 17 2006 10:38PM
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