What is this chicken thinking?

[theoldchick]

Mitzie looking out the window for the first time:

Wow, that's a big world out there!

 

[LittleBits]

Quote: As deaf people form their thoughts into sign language so the rest of us can understand them, they are thinking in the same form. They may sign that your chickens are funny, and what they think is exactly that in their country's language. There are different types of signing, such as ASL (American Sign language) and sign language for other languages, like Chinese or German, etc. They have learned that language while growing up, only in another form (signing) rather than oral, so that is what they think in.

If a deaf person could once hear and knew the oral form of the language, they may also think just as we do - in our native language, whether it be English, Spanish, or some other.

oldchick: Is there a color or shape for the thought funny? I believe it goes beyond color and shape - just as a hearing person's thoughts do. We may associate certain words with a color - some of our expressions come from colors - like the expression, "Feeling blue..." or the color yellow is often times associated with happiness or cheer; red portrays anger - things like that, but deaf people's brains are just like ours - they just can't hear. Sometimes they have trouble with our oral language if we sign what we speak word for word because of the craziness of the language - synonyms, words spelled the same but w/ different meanings, things like that - but they can generally understand because of the total thought or the rest of the conversation. Deaf people don't usually sign as we would speak - word for word. There are signs for different thoughts as a whole.

Hope that helps anyone who is wondering...

 

[fishnet1971]

Bits, that is just aweseome. Thank you for putting my mind at rest. I wonder though, they can read words, so if they associate a word with an item, then do they think that as well?

Sorry to get off key here guys, here's my picture to make up for it. lol

 

[TwoCrows]

Bits, that is just aweseome. Thank you for putting my mind at rest. I wonder though, they can read words, so if they associate a word with an item, then do they think that as well?

Sorry to get off key here guys, here's my picture to make up for it. lol

(Rooster) You do realize that I am at the top of THIS pecking order. Now...move over cause I want your perch!

 

[LittleBits]

Bits, that is just aweseome. Thank you for putting my mind at rest. I wonder though, they can read words, so if they associate a word with an item, then do they think that as well?

Sorry to get off key here guys, here's my picture to make up for it. lol

I imagine they do because don't we? Sometimes we do and sometimes we don't. For example, we often have a picture in our head of a scene in a book while we are reading it. It brings the written word to life, doesn't it?That's our imagination being used. I'm sure they do the same thing because it's just their ears that have a deficit. If it's a good plot, vivid descriptions, good writing - I'm more likely to form an image in my head of the thoughts on the page. That's a type of association. They do the same. Makes a person think about Helen Keller's experience and what it would be like to be deaf AND blind - but it came to her because there wasn't anything different about her brain - she had a VIVID imagination and was very intelligent - she just had to rechannel what we mostly take for granted.

 

[theoldchick]

Don't you touch my woman!

 

[LittleBits]

Bits, that is just aweseome. Thank you for putting my mind at rest. I wonder though, they can read words, so if they associate a word with an item, then do they think that as well?

Sorry to get off key here guys, here's my picture to make up for it. lol

Rooster: "OK, ya'll - I'm up here at the top - I plan on staying. Anyone got a problem with that?"
Human: "The only thing I have a problem with is your spur in my neck. Listen, I promise I won't try to take your place anymore. Look - I'm smiling, ain't I?"

 

[BinaryChicken]

Bits, that is just aweseome. Thank you for putting my mind at rest. I wonder though, they can read words, so if they associate a word with an item, then do they think that as well?

Sorry to get off key here guys, here's my picture to make up for it. lol

Rooster: "I'm a ventriloquist, and this is my dummy."

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Rangi the troublemaker!! What is she thinking?

 

[fishnet1971]

Rooster: "I'm a ventriloquist, and this is my dummy."

oh that is SO true......