[Magdalen] signing the mass

[ME Michaud]

There’s a wonderful book called (IIRC) We All Spoke Sign Language Here.
It’s about Martha’s Vineyard, where there was a large population of
deaf people (isolated community/recessive gene). The community invented
a sign language over several generations and everyone learned it.
Extremely helpful in storms and on fishing boats, they said.
-M

On Thursday, February 8, 2018, Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com>
wrote:
>
> Also, I was reading an interesting article on the invention of a sign
> language for the deaf in Nicaragua:
> https://www.1843magazine.com/features/signs-and-wonders
>
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