Do you think sign language and mime language are the same thing???

Question

blue obviously knows sign, but not categorization

Answer 1

Mimes use their face, arms, legs and torso to communicate their message.

ASL focus on the signs used with our hands.

Ok I'm going to demonstrate the difference.........watch closely!

Mime:






Sign Language:







There? How was that? *curtsies*

Answer 2

Absolutely NOT!!!

Do you even know what sign language is?? It is a COMPLETE, COMPLEX LANGUAGE that employs signs made with the hands and other movements, including facial expressions and postures of the body. In the United States we use American Sign Language which unfortunately means that a deaf person from the States will not be able to communicate with a deaf person from England or Mexico--- They will communicate through gestures and the like but not through sign language.. the same as a hearing person that speaks only Spanish and cannot communicate with an English speaking-person.......

I don't ever insult any participants but Nadine is an idiot!! People that use Sign-Language are DEAF or hard of hearing, they cannot hear nor can they speak (and even if they do it is sometimes hard for others to understand as it will not be very clear) They are not foreigners and they CANNOT learn to SPEAK English because they are DEAF but they do learn to read and write English.... They can certainly read and write English much better than whatever crap you wrote there-- (Go back to school and get an education and take a lot more English classes because you definitely need it)
Deaf individuals will learn American Sign Language not Spanish Sign Language.... it's amazing how some people can just be so ignorant!

Answer 3

Nope, because miming isn't a language.

A language is a sophisticated symbolic system of communication, capable of explaining and transmitting information about abstract ideas. Sign languages do this. Mimes do not. Mimes are not able to transmit ideas about anything abstract. Therefore, mimes don't use language. If you learn a little bit about sign language, you might start to pick up on some of the more symbolic elements of the language that you might not be recognizing right now.

Answer 4

Not really. Sign language is a formal, structured manual representation of the spoken language with each manual gesture signifying a specific letter, word or concept. Mime language is closer to acting where the mimer attempts to tell a story or act out an event using body movement rather than speaking.

Answer 5

Good Lord, we are surrounded by idjuts on the web site.

ASL, American Sign Language is a fully constructed, grammatically correct form of communication used by the deaf and hearing impaired in the US. It has no relationship to the movements a mime makes at all.

And for the person who thinks everyone should speak American...my deaf friends have a better grasp of the language than you do if your post is any example.

Answer 6

To me, mimes aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary.

I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the city, and a mime killed my dad.

Answer 7

They are probly all pretty simlar. THem people who relies on sign language is jist like forinners to me. If they want to live in America they need to lern the langwidge we got here/ It's American people. Can you speak it?

Answer 8

I'm so not feeling clever right now. I just thought I'd say hi. Oh. Well they both kick the guy standing next to them if they wanna scream.

Answer 9

i doubt theres a such thing as mime language

Answer 10

That's a hard act to follow.