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"And when they talk, they hide their conversations, imitating the mouth-speakers' mouth-to-ear talk, what the Earthers call "whispers"."
-The News Carrier

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Lingua Franca had a very interesting story that depicted langauge and communication as a sacred thing done only by the use of sign-langauge. Later on in the story it is revealed that this planet most likely atrophied their eardrums and vocal chords, resulting in their langauge shifting from "mouth-talk" to sign-language, due to the air density causing any sound to amplify. The similarities with our own current world, how children "fly the nest" and their parents become spectators for their lives was an interesting concept.

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The big summer action movie "Baby Driver" made waves in the Deaf community - CJ Jones, a Deaf actor, plays the deaf foster father of the film's protagonist, Baby. It's exciting for two reasons: deaf characters rarely appear in big mainstream films, and it's even rarer that deaf people play themselves.

But the fight for authentic representation is far from over.

Many in the Deaf community now have their eyes on the new Todd Haynes film, "Wonderstruck," which makes its mainstream theater debut today. It spotlights the Deaf community, yet stars Julianne Moore as one of the deaf protagonists. Moore is only the latest in a long line of hearing actors playing deaf roles - most recently Chris Heyerdahl in the new Syfy-turned-Netflix series "Van Helsing."

Filmmakers have offered many excuses for not casting deaf actors - everything from not knowing where to find a one, to asserting a deaf woman would get injured during the shooting of an action sequence.

More disappointing than Hollywood's justifications, however, is the way the Deaf community's critiques are portrayed as political correctness run amok.

Consider the way the public treats other Hollywood excuses: When the spotlight falls, for example, on the film industry's lack of racial and gender diversity, consumers and journalists alike are rightfully outraged; when the same thing happens to deaf artists, the mainstream offers only silence.

The reason could lie in a fundamental misunderstanding of deafness: Hearing people view deafness as a deficiency rather than a separate linguistic context, worldview and culture. Conversely, Deaf people who identify with the Deaf community and use a signed language - here in the United States, American Sign Language (ASL) - consider their Deafhood their primary cultural identity. Those who identify this way use the capital "D" to mark the difference between the physicality of not hearing and the social, cultural and linguistic implications of thinking and communicating in a language other than English.

But what is Deaf culture? Like many others, it is rooted in language.

The manual modality of signed language gives rise to common mannerisms and codes of behavior in Deaf settings. By incorporating gestures, movement and facial expressions, Deaf people tend to be far blunter with one another than considered appropriate in hearing company. Stomping on the floor, for example, or throwing something at a Deaf person (known as "beanbagging") are accepted ways of getting someone's attention.

What the hearing world calls "hearing loss," the Deaf community counters with "Deaf gain." It avoids terminology like "handicapped," "hearing impaired" or "mute."

I'm speaking from the North American Deaf cultural experience, which uses ASL. Sign languages are not universal; they sprout organically from communication within a deaf population and develop over time, like spoken languages.

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Opinion | The hearing world must stop asking the deaf to assimilate

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The big summer action movie "Baby Driver" made waves in the Deaf community - CJ Jones, a Deaf actor, plays the deaf foster father of the film's protagonist, Baby. It's exciting for two reasons: deaf characters rarely appear in big mainstream films, and it's even rarer that deaf people play themselves.

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Bridging the gap between the deaf and hearing community. | Roos Wattel | TEDxAmsterdamWomen

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The idea that the elders are opposed to new innovations while the younger generation is more than happy to adapt and learn new innovations was also quite interesting.

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“The idea of thinking in a linguistic yet nonphonological mode always intrigued me. I had a friend born of deaf parents; he grew up using American Sign Language, and he told me that he often thought in ASL instead of English. I used to wonder what it was like to have one’s thoughts be manually coded, to reason using an inner pair of hands instead of an inner voice. With Heptapod B, I was experiencing something just as foreign: my thoughts were becoming graphically coded. There were trance-like moments during the day when my thoughts weren’t expressed with my internal voice; instead, I saw semagrams with my mind’s eye, sprouting like frost on a windowpane."
-Louise Banks

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Story of Your Life was a unique story that potrayed learning a foreign langauge as life-changing. The protagonist learns to communicate with aliens, and by doing so she becomes fluent in Heptapod B. The way that learning this language caused her to start thinking in this language and all other sorts of reality changes occur is quite interesting. Communication and langauge are seen as being accompanied with a profound shift in reality and sense of self.

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Researchers found that if we could use a foreign language throughout our thinking process, it might be a beneficial thing to do. Because when we made a decision in a non native language, it would remove some emotional bias within words.

This research was done by Boaz Keysar, Sayuri L. Hayakawa, and Sun Gyu An, in the journal Psychological Science.

source of pic :https://bigthink.com/think-tank/the-stockdale-paradox-how-optimism-creates-resilience

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Thinking in another language provides you with a clearer thought?

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Researchers found that if we could use a foreign language throughout our thinking process, it might be a beneficial thing to do. Because when we made a decision in a non native language, it would remove some emotional bias within words. This research was done by Boaz Keysar, Sayuri L.

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How the Languages We Speak Shape the Ways We Think