Re: Reading depends on writing, in Chinese

Lee Sau Dan wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Peter> Lee Sau Dan wrote:
> >> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> writes:
> >>
> >> >> Language development entails four fundamental and
> >> interactive >> abilities: listening, speaking, reading, and
> >> writing. Over the >> past four decades, a
> >>
> Peter> No, it doesn't; reading and writing are strictly optional.
> >> Listening and speaking are optional, too!
> >>
> >> Have you really never met any deaf and dumb people who can read
> >> and write without problems (if not better than their speaking
> >> and hearing friends)?
>
> Peter> I've never met any deaf people who had no language.
>
> Do they *speak* it? Can they *listen*?

Of course. They speak with their hands and listen with their eyes.

(Many vocalize, too. Have you ever seen the American TV actress Marlee
Matlin? Her climactic scene almost always involves breaking into speech
for emotional impact -- though she won an Oscar for the movie version of
*Children of a Lesser God*, whose heroine _refuses_ ever to vocalize. On
Broadway the part was taken by Phyllis Froelich; John Rubinstein may
have been the male lead in both the Broadway and movie versions, but
it's been a very long time since I saw them!)
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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