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NATURAL SIGN LANGUAGE.
THE
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"Billy", "idle", "empty", and so oh. Placing the fingers in the form of a crown on the top of the head sug- gesta "king". "Hunger" is 'ex- pressed by running the, thumb down the ribs, the idea being that the ribs are standing out, or ex- treme hunger by pressing the fingers into the stomach. It is Partly a language of gesture, and partly one of facial expression, the polat being that all the signs urise' naturally out of the thing to be expressed.
The Gondoller and His Money,
VOLUNTEER CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.
MONTHLY SPOON SHOOT.
Orders by Major H. B. L Dow biggin, commanding Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, state:- Parades.
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Mr. Daniel Jones, the Professor of Phonetics at University Collège, London, recently threw out in a lecture a fascinating new idea. It Is that the natural sign language. The objection which at once oc- (a) Corps Band---Band practices used by the deaf and dumb might curred is that while. this sign will be held on Mondays only at | become the basis of an interna- language might be useful for con-6 p.m. until further orders.
tional language for the same purveying a few simple ideas it could (b) Battery-There will he pose as the artificial international hardly be sufficiently varied to ex-lecture at Headquarters on Thurs- languages at present employed." press complicated notions. The ex-day, August 21 at 5.30 p.m.
This idea, which at first sight pért assured me that this is not the (6) Engineer Company-Mon- sounds rather, fantastic, is serious case. He said that in addressing day, August 18 shoot Miniature;
put forward by Professor the deaf and dumb he himself uses range at 5.30 p.m. Daniel Jones, who is of course a the language of signs, apeaking the (d) Corps Signals-Signallers as prominent authority on speech and worda inaudibly at the same time detailed will parade outside Kow- innguage. A Manchester Guar- to help it out with lip-speech,Icon Railway Station at 9 am on dian representative- asked him to though the latter. was not necea Sunday, August 17 to proceed to explain his proposals, and he did sary. He himself could see no Fanling. Tiffins should be taken. so on the following lines. There reason why natural signs should Dress:-Uniform without equip are, it appears, two sorts of signa not be made the basis of an inter-ment. Signal class will parade at used by the deaf and dumb, national language. Though the Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. natural signs which are obvious to deaf pick the language up almost on Thursday, August 21. janyone, and arbitrary signs which instinctively one from another, it (e) Machine Gun Troop-Parade are not so easy to understand at can easily be taught to a normal at Causeway Bay Stable at 5.30 first, but are easily learned. There person, and he has himself taught p.m. on Thursday, August 21, is also the manual alphabet which it to a hearing worker who is (f) Armoured Car Company- ia used to spell any words on the training to do welfare work for the Car Section. Parade at Kowloon Gugers. This is very reliable, and deaf. There are, it is true, some Canton Railway Garage at 5.30 does away with the need of pencil differences between the signs used p.m.
on Friday, August 22 for and paper. A popular method of for the same thing in one country, driving instruction. communication among the deaf is and in another, but in practice this Motor Cycle Section-Parade at to frame the words with their Jipe difficulty is not a barrier to com- Headquarters 5.30 p.m. Friday, and mouths, and sign the same munication among the deaf. This August 22 for Machine Gun in words on their hands simultaneous-language has arisen naturally outstruction.
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22 at Headquarters at 5.80 p.m. in
He gave an amusing illustration.Į mufti. sign He was in a gondola in Venice when the gondoller stopped in a aide carni. He knew no Italian and the gondolier no English. My informant threw his arms wide in the natural gesture which means "Why"? The gondolier thereupon did the pantomime of counting money into the palm of his hand,
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There is, in addition, the of the necessity of the case, and (g) Machine Gun Company- method now employed of teaching of course exists in a rudimentary N.C.O.'s Classes will be held on the deaf and dumb to articulate form already between people of Tuesday, 19th and Friday, August words, but that need not different tongues,' be discussedi. Professor Jones said that the natura! language, which is not formally tought, is the one which deaf people use by preference in "speak ing" to one another. This language seems to arise naturally out of the needs of the case, as the most ex- pressive means of conveying ideas by gesture and expression. He has been struck by the facility with which deaf children will talk with one another from one end to the other of a tube carriage in cir- cumstances where ordinary people are dumb,
of
At the Rifle Club shoot on Bux- the universal, sign symbol for giv-day, August 10, Pte. R. M. Wood ing money. My friend then pre- won the monthly spoon shoot. The tended not to understand, and the Inter-section shoot resulted as fol- gondolier made the gesture, of lows:-- drinking, shaping his fist like an "G" Section 1st-192 points. Italian flask with the thumb for
"E" Section 2nd-171 points. neck, and then pinched his throat "B" Section 3rd-164 points. with his finger and thumb, the "G" Section were represented by "natural" sign which every deaf Ptes. R. M. Wood & L. B. Holmes. person uses for "thirst". Among The next shoot will be held on the deaf an immense number and Sunday September 7 at 9 am, on variety of movements, gestures, the Peak Range. Individual com- and facial expressions are used in petition for Company Commander's different combinations to express Cup and Inter-section shoot, all almost anything.
under Corps Championship Condi- tions.
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An International Language. An extraordinary thing about national. this language is that it is inter- An English deaf and dumb person can understand a deat French or Turkish person by this means without any prelimin- aries. He gave a striking example of this. In 1912 there was an in- ternational congress of deaf people "Use Discouraged in Schools." in Paris. The intention of the I understand that the use of this organisers was that the speeches language is not only not taught in His Excellency the Governor has should be made in English, French, the special schools but its use is been pleased to appoint Sergeant- and German, and be lip-read by the discouraged. "As an outsider," Major Henry Westlake, D.C.M., audience. But the deaf delegates said Professor Jones, "this seems Hong Kong Volunteer Defence themselves objected to this pro- to me to be a mistake. I do not Corps, to be Honorary Lieutenant cedure on the grounds that only a
see why you should take away from and Quartermaster, with effect few would be able to understand these children the use of the from May 27, 1930.-- any one of these languages, and natural means of communication." only a few would be able to read The reason, one gathered, for this ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.
the lips of the speakers. They re- attitude is that the special educa solved that the whole proceedings tion aims at taking the deaf out ICHOOL RE-OPENS, and New should be conducted in the natural side the narrow circle of their Students received, at Stanley sign language. This was done, and disability so that they may feel as September. lat at 9.30 a.m. everyone understood enough to far as possible that they are For Prospectus, apply to Mr. LI follow the business in hand and to ordinary people, and may be able The following have been taken HOI-TUNG, Messrs. Banker & understand the papers that were by lip-reading and so on to under- on the strength and posted as Co., 4, Queen's Road C.. or the read. A speech by a Turk, for stand the speech of others, and under:- WÄRDEN, St. Stephen's College, example,, transmitted in this way also by articulation to make hearing Stanley.
was generally intelligible to the people understand them. delegates. Professor Jones is conf The expert already quoted added vinced from this and other that deaf people in using the natural, evidence that this sign language, sign language supplemented it them- which comes so naturally to, and selves by finger spelling to convey is so easily understood by deaf names and so on. They learned it people, might be easlly extended as from one another with a perfection a means of international communi- which must seem mysterious' to the
outsider. Presumably if it was 10 "I", he says, "these deaf and seriously taken up as an interna- dumb people, with all the dia- tional language it would be neces- abilities that they have, can com- sary in the first place for everyone municate happily together with the to go to school to the deaf or to: For the Hong Kong Stock Ex-deaf people of any other nation, those few "hearing" people who change.
the language cannot be so difficult have learnt to communicate with for others to acquire. Why can- them in this way-Manchester Chairman. not we all learn to use a method Guardian.
that is in existence Instead of in-} venting a language?" He thinks that it is an objection to the in- ternational languages used that they have a Latin basis, and are only readily intelligible among people who speak Romance tongues. They can of course be learnt by people who speak Lon- Romance languages, but they are comparatively more difficult for
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SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY.
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong the signs which it is not easy to gained entry to the United States.
When arrested, he said, Com-Kong for August (Standard time convey in print. No one apparent munists had refused to divulge of the 120th Meridian, East of ly has ever attempted to compile this fact
Greenwich) are as follow
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