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The Linguists" (2008) new
subtitled film have been screened at many universities and linguistic associations and several film festivals to the acclaims of film attendees and linguists and university researchers. That film also have been shown at Yale University, University of London, University of Chicago and Purdue University this year.
American Sign Language (ASL) itself is surely possible to be one of the endangered language if the new scientific breakthrough for complete reversal of hearing loss and the AGBell's AVT (audio verbal therapy) doctrination.
This film is mainly a documentary about two linguists raced to record the endangered languages and associated cultures around the world like the "Indiana Jones" adventures before the last fluent speakers of endangered and forgotten and hidden languages die.
7,000 different languages are currently spoken around the entire globe, many are rapidly disappearing. On the average, one language disappears into thin air every two weeks. Scientists and linguist experts estimate that the half of language will be on the verge of extinction in this 21th century due to economic and sociopolitical colonialism, ex. China on Tibet and Tawian and AGBell doctrines on the use of AVT to get rid of American Sign Language (ASL).
So the AGBell could accomplish Alexander Graham Bell's lifetime dreams of crushing deaf people's visual communication for all good with the AVT and sleath campaign against the ASL users and integrate deaf people like cattle against their own will.
RACING AGAINST TIME
BEFORE THEY HEARD AGAIN
are part of the film campaign slogans for "The Linguists" documentary. It (the film) have been the talk of the town at the Sundance Film Festival last January 2008. The Linguistic Society of America and National Science Foundation shown great interests in this film to preserve the endangered, hidden and forgotten languages.
http://www.lsadc.org/ and
http://ling.bu.edu/in/the/news The American Sign Language (ASL) related topics have been posted on the Linguistic Society of America website.
For the film reviews and additional information of "The Linguists" -
http://www.thelinguists.com/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/linguists/Rosetta Stone Endangered Language program based in Harrisburg, VA, is a main non-profit organization devoted to the preservation of endangered and hidden language. It strongly encouraged the local and remote languages to be community-owned, culturally relevant and urge people to keep the language integrity and support existing efforts. This organization also offer paid internship to graduate and undergraduate students interested in contributing to the works of the program.
http://www.rosettastone.org/"The Linguists" film will be screened at the National Geographic Society (NGS) of Washington, DC next Thursday, October 2, 2008. How ironic of the NGS being co-founded by Alexander Graham Bell (AGB) and his associates which the NGS will screen this film as part of preserving and promoting the endangered languages like the American Sign Language (ASL).
The United Nations' UNESCO unit will screen "The Linguists" film this October 2008 in New York City, NY. For more info on the screening locations, check out
http://www.thelinguists.com/American Sign Language (ASL) always will be prevail and remain forever for centuries among the humankind. Of course, our present ASL usage will be much different from the next 50 to 100 years. Or our American Sign Language be more likely to be extinct depend on our actions and National Association of the Deaf - Alexander Graham Bell and Mike McConnell and Mike Schidmit aka Drmzzz?
Barb DiGigi, Joey Baer, Ricky Taylor aka Ridor, Cy, MZ, Amy Cohen Efron and other more bloggers and vloggers are the protectors of American Sign Language (ASL) and cherish the rights to visual communication and fluency.
The upcoming RLM blog article - "What Happened to Our ASL Fluency". Keep tune in to the RLMDEAF blog for this article.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason
