Chapter 6 :)

For Hearing People Only    Chapter 6                     

For the most part chapter 6 wasn't much help to me. I have found that learning the grammar and syntax of ASL to be a difficult concept to grasp. In chapter 6 all the talk of  "SMVO, MSVO,SVOM..." etc confused me more than I think it helped. 

In high school I took 3 years of Latin, I loved the language but learning it proved to not be such an easy task. Learning ASL is reminding me of Latin, in both languages the topic is in the beginning of the sentence, I am sure there are more similarities but it has been a few years since I have studied Latin. ;)

One part of chapter 6 I did find rather interesting was the part about Manually Coded English Systems. I agree with the book in the aspect that yes MCE systems would be easier for Hearing English speaking people to understand, but I think that implementing a system like MCE would take away from Deaf culture. I do however think that Manually coded English systems could be a good way to teach Deaf children English, I think the best answer here would be for children to be familiarized with MCE systems so they read lips.