http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/08/numbers-need-language-to-make-sense-in-our-minds/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/08/numbers-need-language-to-make-sense-in-our-minds/#comment-25110 yelan Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:01:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=26002#comment-25110 @John：Being deaf doesn't mean they're retarded. @John：Being deaf doesn’t mean they’re retarded.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/08/numbers-need-language-to-make-sense-in-our-minds/#comment-25109 Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor) Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:35:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=26002#comment-25109 @John: Good thought, but the homesigners are a well-known case—they have no pathologies in common beyond deafness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language @John: Good thought, but the homesigners are a well-known case—they have no pathologies in common beyond deafness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/08/numbers-need-language-to-make-sense-in-our-minds/#comment-25108 Matt B. Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:21:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=26002#comment-25108 This is very interesting. A higher-level version of this might be when I bought a book of 20 stamps and the clerk started to count them one by one (to make sure it was 20 and not 10) instead of noticing that they were in a 4-by-5 arrangement. So it's like the clerk was missing the multiplication table, corresponding to the deaf kids missing the count list. This is very interesting. A higher-level version of this might be when I bought a book of 20 stamps and the clerk started to count them one by one (to make sure it was 20 and not 10) instead of noticing that they were in a 4-by-5 arrangement. So it’s like the clerk was missing the multiplication table, corresponding to the deaf kids missing the count list.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/02/08/numbers-need-language-to-make-sense-in-our-minds/#comment-25107 John Lerch Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:04:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=26002#comment-25107 They didn't say what was the cause of the deafness of the creators of the language. I.E. they made an issue of there being numbers in the society around them--but so what, that is primarily relevant to the creation of the language. Maybe the creators were deaf because of brain disease--like meningitis or congenitally. They didn’t say what was the cause of the deafness of the creators of the language. I.E. they made an issue of there being numbers in the society around them–but so what, that is primarily relevant to the creation of the language. Maybe the creators were deaf because of brain disease–like meningitis or congenitally.

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