Thanks for the input--I agree. I am trying to figure out how to do this, because the vast majority of viewing happens on phones so the vertical aspect is ideal, but I want to make videos in landscape for "big" screen viewing, as well. I may have to make longer videos in landscape and keep my shorter videos in portrait. I am glad you mentioned this, though because I needed to hear it!
@@Dr.Timshistory I am not a fan of the shift to short attention span theater, but I empathize with your plight...I can rotate my phone 90degrees, unless of course it is a YT short, but that format does not allow for any meaningful distribution of information.
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, along with Old French sign Language and various Native American Sign Languages, influenced and became part of today's American Sign Language.
That is fascinating. It would be incredible to see a linguistic "family tree" of different sign languages, if such a thing is even possible. Thanks for sharing that!
Ireland had a weird one - gendered sign languages! So basically there was an all girl's school for deaf & in the same city there was an all boys school for deaf, most deaf kids from the island attended these. Between the nuns teaching one sign language version & the brothers teaching a similar sign language + the kids "village sign" from playground use being informally added, the sign languages diverged!! The nuns/brothers were actually fine with the deaf women & men not being able to communicate with each other as they didn't want them marrying & having deaf kids. What happened was the women learnt the male version for speaking to men & if a man used female SL it was considered effeminate etc. When they decided to standardise it, they used all the signs that were the same & meant the same thing & went half half on the rest of the language. But because of people being taught by families & there still being a surviving generation of the schools, the isl you get taught can depend on your teacher!
That is fascinating! The gendered element is wild, and the eugenic element of trying to prevent people from having deaf children is very disturbing. Thanks for sharing this!
@@Dr.Timshistory his guest was speaking about the development of sign language in France and an American who used MVSL to develop ASL. I went down the rabbit hole love the channel ✌🏽
I was taught sign language that was passed down from a woman who was born in the 1800's.
It uses both hands to sign one letter.
Good stuff Dr. Tim, would be better if recorded in landscape.
Thanks for the input--I agree. I am trying to figure out how to do this, because the vast majority of viewing happens on phones so the vertical aspect is ideal, but I want to make videos in landscape for "big" screen viewing, as well. I may have to make longer videos in landscape and keep my shorter videos in portrait. I am glad you mentioned this, though because I needed to hear it!
@@Dr.Timshistory I am not a fan of the shift to short attention span theater, but I empathize with your plight...I can rotate my phone 90degrees, unless of course it is a YT short, but that format does not allow for any meaningful distribution of information.
Nice video, interesting topic, very informative but also short. Was enjoyable and I subscribed.
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, along with Old French sign Language and various Native American Sign Languages, influenced and became part of today's American Sign Language.
That is fascinating. It would be incredible to see a linguistic "family tree" of different sign languages, if such a thing is even possible. Thanks for sharing that!
I couldn't "follow" you, exactly...
but I did like and subscribe 😊
Wow! I did not know that.
Cool!
Ireland had a weird one - gendered sign languages! So basically there was an all girl's school for deaf & in the same city there was an all boys school for deaf, most deaf kids from the island attended these. Between the nuns teaching one sign language version & the brothers teaching a similar sign language + the kids "village sign" from playground use being informally added, the sign languages diverged!! The nuns/brothers were actually fine with the deaf women & men not being able to communicate with each other as they didn't want them marrying & having deaf kids. What happened was the women learnt the male version for speaking to men & if a man used female SL it was considered effeminate etc. When they decided to standardise it, they used all the signs that were the same & meant the same thing & went half half on the rest of the language. But because of people being taught by families & there still being a surviving generation of the schools, the isl you get taught can depend on your teacher!
That is fascinating! The gendered element is wild, and the eugenic element of trying to prevent people from having deaf children is very disturbing. Thanks for sharing this!
Joe Rogan brought me here
Did he talk about this topic?
@@Dr.Timshistory his guest was speaking about the development of sign language in France and an American who used MVSL to develop ASL. I went down the rabbit hole love the channel ✌🏽