Ming argues that sign language, while communicative, is less efficient than spoken words for back-and-forth conversation. Speech-delayed children who rely only on signing may miss out on the faster pace of spoken language that helps them keep up in everyday interactions.
Sign language is very communicative, but it's not as efficient. If we're in the library and then we cannot really talk to each other by like, signaling with our eyes or like, like that. Usually we get our messages across. Right. But it's not that effective, like going back and forth if we're not good at it. So let's talk about someone who is hearing impaired and can use sign language very well. You can see that if you see two people who are masters of sign language, when they talk, they can, like, just go on and on forever like, like that. They can just talk and just ignore everyone. Well, the thing is, they don't know how to talk. That's why they're using this. And they crave for communication and they're both having the same problem. That's why they're having such a good chat. Right. But it's not as effective. It really isn't as efficient as talking with words.
