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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

> 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'.
>

I took 'sign language' to refer to sign languages in general, not the
Nicaruguan one, since obviously its creators had no previous language.

Torsten