Would it make sense for “rhyme” to rhyme with “time”?
Or for “through” to rhyme with “two”?
Some Deaf people can still hear, in which case rhymes would make sense.
Someone who’s never heard before probably wouldn’t get rhymes in English. But then again, someone who speaks English probably wouldn’t get rhymes in ASL.
People who can hear would have an advantage though in that they’d be able to learn ASL and pick up on wordplay (like “rhyming”) that’s used in ASL. Unless a Deaf person becomes Hearing, they may never be able to experience rhymes in spoken English.
… it’d be easier if our spelling wasn’t so darned stupid, lol
I saw a YouTube video about how a gorilla couldn’t rhyme in ASL and would rhyme in the english sounding versions which meant that the gorilla didn’t really understand ASL the same way a toddler would. Was pretty cool, had no idea rhymes existed in ASL.
Along the same lines, do deaf people compose poems in ASL? What aspect of that language plays the part of rhyme?
I would imagine that if you went deaf after you learned to read, rhymes would continue to make sense.
Huh, as someone who became deaf later in life, and thus still have the “internal monologue”, good question!
It’s always so interesting to me that some folks don’t have that internal monologue.
Me and my internal committee thank you for keeping yours going!