commented on IMs a few weeks after BiCon that I had been signing at her/others at BiCon a lot, I didn't realise I was doing it, I do it too, on occasion. My signing is nowhere near fluent, but sometimes (esp. in a noisey atmosphere) using BSL feels natural, even to me.
when i read your posts on LJ I forget that you talk in a measured fashion I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean by that. I was speaking a few months ago with my ex-housemate (who is studying something linguistic-y) who made the comment that late language developers (such as me - I didn't speak a coherent word until around 3 years old) often treat their mother tongue as a foreign language. By way of example, more processing seems to take place in the language itself rather than what Steve Pinker (in The Language Instinct) calls mentalese. As such the syntax is often very strict and comes over deliberate-sounding.
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I do it too, on occasion. My signing is nowhere near fluent, but sometimes (esp. in a noisey atmosphere) using BSL feels natural, even to me.
I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean by that. I was speaking a few months ago with my ex-housemate (who is studying something linguistic-y) who made the comment that late language developers (such as me - I didn't speak a coherent word until around 3 years old) often treat their mother tongue as a foreign language. By way of example, more processing seems to take place in the language itself rather than what Steve Pinker (in The Language Instinct) calls mentalese. As such the syntax is often very strict and comes over deliberate-sounding.
</rambling-back-at-you> ;-)