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Why do some TV broadcasts show a person translating it to sign language instead of using subtitles? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I assume there must be a reason why sign language is superior but I genuinely don't know why.

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[โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago

Not really. You can still sound out the phonemes in a programming language. Perhaps if the whole thing were perl memes. And while I agree English orthography is a mess, for "not phonetic" it holds no candle to Chinese.

Maybe Chinese is a better comparison, I hadn't thought of that.

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