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Message:: [QUOTE="BUncirculated, post: 1484612, member: 29581"]What I meant by my statement is that ASL here in the U.S., uses signs and hand gestures in place of spoken English words. Someone from say Spain, who is deaf uses sign language that is adapted to words in Spanish, and an deaf person in the U.S. would not understand the structure of the signs used in Spain. Some of the signs maybe similar to those used in ASL, but have a different meaning and neither would be able to communicate using their respective signing. As far as grammatical structure, the source you quoted is accurate as ASL is in broken syntax. Example: Spoken a sentence would be; "I have to go to the store." In sign, that sentence would be; "I store go I". To someone who is deaf, or is fluent in sign language they would interpret "I store go I" as "He must go to the store". It's a condensed syntax missing a lot of the smaller words such as to, the, etc., and it's not uncommon for deaf people to write communication much in the same way as they sign. If you listen to a person who lost their hearing due to damage to the inner ear, in time, because they are not able to hear the annunciation and forming of words, their speech deteriorates, and will continue to do so until they no longer can form words. This is due to their inability to hear the sounds of words being formed through speech.[/QUOTE]