Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Dumb people can argue too

The word "dumb" in the title of this post refers to the inability of the group of people to communicate verbally, it is not a reflection on their cognitive abilities.

I walked through the Anzac Square shopping mall on my way to the train station yesterday afternoon. This in itself is not an unusual event, and hardly worth blogging about but I happened to pass a group of people engaged in what looked like a heated debate over something. This group of people was noteworthy because they were signing rather than verbally speaking to each other and the body language (no pun intended) indicated that there was some contention in the air. It was the first time that I'd seen an argument in sign language. Of course, to an Italian, they would probably have just appeared normal.

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