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Comment on Do deaf people know they have a deaf accent when speaking?
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I was wondering if deaf people had accents. Last time I asked on reddit and was called an idiot because British sign language and American sign language is different.
Like, not really what I was asking, but they were insistent that I was ablist or something.
robocall@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 week ago
OP didn’t ask about signing, but speaking.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Speaking and talking are colloquially used to describe people communicating in sign language. “I speak ASL”, “I talk ASL”, etc.
Definitions of the words speak and [talk](www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/talk] cover non-verbal communication.
Speak: to express feelings by other than verbal means
Talk: to express or exchange ideas by means of spoken words or sign language
That said, I agree that OP was likely asking about spoken word.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And neither was this OP.
palordrolap@fedia.io 1 week ago
Deaf people will almost unavoidably copy the mouth shapes they've seen when other people have spoken. This means that how they sound will be at least somewhat informed by any hearing people they observe as well as indirectly through other deaf people who have also learned from hearing folks.
So yes, aspects of voice accent do carry over to deaf people.
There's also the concept of "accent" within sign language too. How people move between signs, carry themselves and act when expressing an emotion, which is usually exaggerated for the sake of clear communication, can vary from community to community, even if the base sign language is the same.