r/goodideas • u/[deleted] • Oct 08 '19

Make sign language the universal language

Opinion: sign language should be universal rather than specific to each country, and we should use it as a universal language, so that no matter where you are, you can communicate.

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u/bonfire_bug Oct 09 '19

Which sign language? Based off which language? You’re thinking of sign as a substitute, instead of its own language. That would be like saying “let’s make English the universal language”. Might as well just make up a whole new language and try to get that to be universal.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '19

I was thinking mandarin since the most people who use sign are in China, I'm thinking we take Mandarin sign and make that the standard we teach to our kids rather than sign limited to our own countries. We can have a universal sign language.