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62: Language in Spaaaaace (with Hannah Little)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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Deaf Sign Language in Science Fiction

There's lots of examples in Star Trek where they, yeah, within the world of one episode, it contradicts itself several series later. So I wouldn't like to say what current kind of Star Trek discovery world would, would, how that would represent deaf individuals. But there's been some really lovely representations of deaf sign language users recently in sci-fi. There's a character in the eternals and also one in Hawkeye - if people have seen that. Although I have a gripe with eternals, which is that one of the eternal is deaf and uses American sign language,. but there's scenes that are from like 5000 BC, where she's using American sign

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