232 פרק אחד עשר A successful teacher of the deaf and dumb should be thoroughly acquainted both with their own peculiar mode of expressing their ideas by signs and also with that of expressing the same ideas by those methodological signs which in their arrangement correspond to the structure of the written language . For the natural language of this singular class of beings has its appropriate style and structure . They use it in their unrestrained communication with each other, [ it is marked by ] great abruptness, ellipses, and inversion of expression . . . To take a familiar example . . . ‘You must not eat that fruit, it will make you feel unwell’ . . . In [ the deaf ’s ] own language of signs, literally translated, it would be thus ‘Fruit that you eat, you unwell, you eat no [ p . 785 ] ’ ( ibid . , 126 ) . 'מורה מוצלח של חירשים אילמים חייב להכיר היטב הן את האופן הייחודי שבו הם מבטאים את רעיונותיהם בסימנים והן את האפשרות לבטא רעיונות אלו באמצעות סימנים מתודולוגיים שהמבנה שלהם מותאם ...
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