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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1484584, member: 37498&quot;]Yes, ASL was invented in America, but it is not &quot;sign language in English.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>No, it is not &quot;Universal&quot;, but it is used in many countries by people who don&#039;t speak English.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the Linguistic Society of America&#039;s web page:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;ASL differs more from English in its grammatical structure than do European </p><p>languages such as French, German, Spanish, and Russian. ... ASL differs from English for the same reason other languages do: it is a different language. As such, it is increasingly being accepted as satisfying foreign language requirements in high schools, colleges, and universities.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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