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by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1355 days ago
That is because American Sign Language has a different sentence structure and grammar from English. It's a rather understandable result of a person being raised to communicate in one language "verbally" and a different language to communicate in text.

To give one example, ASL puts negation and inquisition at the end of sentences. If I want to ask, "What is this?" in ASL I would point to the thing I am curious about and then sign, "What?"

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i acknowledge that ASL is different from english, but i refuse to believe that deaf people can't read
A Deaf person reading English and thinking that "the word order is strange" is what I am talking about and it's explained by the differences between ASL and English. I did not mean to imply that Deaf people can't read.