Re: Proper methodology (was: RE: [tied] Re: Mother of all IE langua

At 9:30:44 on Monday, 8 December 2003, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer
> <mcv@...> wrote:

>> Sign language is not based on spoken languages at all.

> Of course they are. On the language of the speaker (or
> reader) who designed it.

No. Apparently you didn't bother to read the article at

<http://www.indiana.edu/~langacq/E105/Nicaragua.html>

on the genesis of Nicaraguan Sign Language. E.g., 'Yet it
turns out that Nicaraguan Sign Language doesn't resemble
Spanish at all'.

Brian