#the 100 years of the Dark age of the Deaf community derivates from doing exactly this and this is just one mere example

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I get like, so frustrated when people say that learning other languages is not fundamental or mandatory to being a linguistic exactly because of this

If you knew all the complete havoc and disaster previous linguistics (or those that predated them) have made because they thought they could draw conclusions about the human capacity of language from being in contact to one (1) or two languages, you wouldn't be so sure to affirm such a thing