Talk:I don't speak American Sign Language

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Do we need this entry? --Anatoli 01:16, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * keep for now pending agreement on a phrasebook CFI. Depending on what criteria we agree on I can see this going either way, so I think it would be premature to delete it before we have such a CFI. Thryduulf (talk) 01:56, 26 July 2010 (UTC)


 * The only issue I have is that it seems rather hard to 'speak' sign language. But I don't know what the alternative would be. —CodeCat 09:23, 26 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Google hits for "I don't speak American Sign Language" - 2,350 results. Google hits for "I don't know American Sign Language" - 39,700 results. ---&gt; Tooironic 10:02, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't this be better as a redirect to something like "I don't know ASL", no matter what criteria we have for phrasebook entries? "I don't know how to sign" comes up at bgc about 50 time, about 10 times more than "I don't know ASL". "I don't speak ASL" doesn't come up at all. If someone with a foreign accent said "I don't know ASL" rather than "I don't sign", wouldn't the implicature be that they do sign using another system.
 * Hypotheses:
 * American Sign Language (7 syllables) is probably rare in speech relative to "ASL" (3 syllables). DCDuring TALK 14:13, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * "Signing" is not "speaking".
 * "I don't know how to sign" and "I don't sign" are reasonable entries.
 * This entry should be moved to I don't know ASL, possibly retaining the redirect, which, though somewhat misleading, might help a user find a better expression. DCDuring TALK 14:13, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Strong move (if that makes sense). 05:49, 10 September 2010 (UTC) Moved. DAVilla 03:37, 27 February 2011 (UTC)