Sign Language
GERMAN TALKS TO TRENCH Sir Richard I’aget's scheme for a language of gesture which would be understood everywhere has bpen uis'cussed. A little story shows that some people have already found the signlanguage useful. A young German came to stay at an International Friendship League centre at London where an English friend of his was in charge. Some French girls had just arrived, and tho German was told: “Hans, I have been waiting for you to take these girls round London.” Tho German knew very little French, but he undertook tho task, and all went wed until they reached the Monument. Asked what this was ho could not find words to explain it, so he lit a match and held it up to show that this was where tho great liro started. And the girls understood.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 276, 22 November 1935, Page 3
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138Sign Language Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 276, 22 November 1935, Page 3
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