Vladimir_M comments on Insufficiently Awesome - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Cayenne 19 April 2011 07:28PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 20 April 2011 09:56:36PM 5 points [-]

I haven't seen any statistics, but I suspect that there is a significant number of hearing people born to deaf parents who are natively bilingual in English and various Anglospheric sign languages.

Comment author: Alicorn 20 April 2011 10:09:05PM 2 points [-]

I have met at least one person with this background.

Comment author: dugancm 21 April 2011 12:44:58AM 0 points [-]

On top of that, I expect there are already plenty of non-native, dedicated translators and interpreters for a given language gap. Oops, thank you both.