If you were born deaf what language would you think in?

[coachTanthony]

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I actually have no subvocalization when reading in English as a second language and often can and do think in English. It's visual and symbolic to me rather than auditory.

It was the only way I could process English initially since I learned how to read and write most English words before I knew how to pronounce them. So I wouldn't be able to subvocalize them even if I wanted to do so back then. Instead I made visual associations: clusters and patterns of letters without sounds.

It's one of the reasons I tend to read so insanely fast (although these days I'm getting really sloppy as a speed reader glossing over things too much). I don't have to vocalize the words in my mind. It's purely visual. When I read out loud, it's painfully slow to me.

It doesn't have a "sound" to it as it does for me with Japanese (I do subvocalize when I read and think in Japanese).

So I suspect that's how I would process my first language if I was deaf is the same way I read and think in English, absent any subvocalization and just purely visual and symbolic. I would think of letters in the language's alphabet forming patterns and clusters and associate imagery and other sensations to ones I can.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I suspect it would be the languages I learn to read and write in most, not sign language, since it seems much more difficult to learn much sign language if we can't read and write first. So I doubt I would think in terms of animated hand signs when thinking about concepts and ideas and symbols. Instead I would likely be thinking about the languages I learned to read and write when making the signs.

[AviatorTom]

We think in concepts, not language, whether we are deaf, blind or otherwise. When you see a beach, you don't think B E A C H, you think of the concept of sand next to water.

[AviatorTom]

Thanks for MHO

[electromagnetic]

I think it’s visual. I don’t think you’ve really think in a language sense. Much rather your eyes would observe and digest what’s happening.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Sign Language based on English.

[Curmudgeon]

Since when was Anne Frank deaf? (Assuming healthy and not malnourished and dying of typhus).

[coachTanthony]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 didn’t think anyone would get that

[CheeseMonster]

I assume they would also be deaf in their thoughts. I don't really have any sound in my thoughts anyway, and I can count on 1 hand the amount of dreams I've had where there was an actual sound. I'm not deaf though.

[Snakeyes7]

I guess instead of hearing your own voice in your head, you'd be imagining text.

Or maybe it would be a weird variation of the regional language if you got good at reading lips.

[Anpu23]

Probably whatever language you primarily read in.

[ChicoFromThe305]

English and Spanish lol

[coachTanthony]

🤣🤣🤣

[Wiredone]

It would be whatever language I learned to read

[Anonymous]

I've never really thought about this. Can you sign with an accent?😆

[Anonymous]

[coachTanthony]

Love the passion thanks for the comment

[Opinion Owner]

No problem 👍

[NathanDavis]

images, and signs... I believe

[Apple1996]

Sign language

[msc545]

Depends on what language I was educated in.

[euniestars]

Wait this got me confused

[dreamstar72]

Being deaf shouldn't be thought as a joke.

[coachTanthony]

Then don’t make fun of deaf people lol

[dreamstar72]

AW I’m deaf FB

[coachTanthony]

Congrats

[dreamstar72]

Funny AW hope you get in a real bad accident and are left without sound better yet both sound and sight

[coachTanthony]

Why?

[dreamstar72]

You are hopeless

[coachTanthony]

True I am a hopeless romantic!

[MemeSupreme]

why anne frank lol

[dolemite58]

An ancient form of elvish

[abc3643]

FORTRAN