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So I was recently thinking about how messing with connection lets you speak the language of the people you connect with. The problem I had is what if the people use a form of sign language or even just trying to connect to a deaf person. Would they just suddenly know how to sign? 

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40 minutes ago, Wits instant noodles said:

So I was recently thinking about how messing with connection lets you speak the language of the people you connect with. The problem I had is what if the people use a form of sign language or even just trying to connect to a deaf person. Would they just suddenly know how to sign? 

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And if there was an area where the primary language was sign language, would a person gain the ability to speak sign language to the people present by using that connection?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes.  It is definitely related to the Cognitive Realm and how people are thinking about language.

Calamity Seattle signing (Feb. 17, 2016)

 

 

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Cadmium (paraphrased)

Would a Connection medallion work for sign language?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Yes.

Cadmium (paraphrased)

Would it make the person's fingers move or would spoken word be interpreted mentally as the appropriate sign? Would it overcome deafness?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Ehhh... It would translate the communication. I can say that.

Calamity Houston signing (Feb. 24, 2016)

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Jack Milson

How many Awakening Commands are there? Is there a finite number, a finite but large number or infinite? Can you Awaken with sign language?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, you can Awaken with sign language. I would say that there are an infinite number, would be my guess. It's either finite but very, very large or infinite. But they're gonna fall into groups as things tend to do in the Cosmere, I would say.

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In one of your previous Q&As, you had said that Awakening could theoretically be done via sign language…

Brandon Sanderson

Yes.

Questioner

…and so the question is: Why wasn't Susebron able to Awaken things prior to getting his tongue?

Brandon Sanderson

So the thing about this is… With a lot of the cosmere magic systems, knowing what you're doing and how to move the magic along takes a certain amount of knowledge, practice, and volition.

Now, if you had a society on Nalthis where enough people were using sign language a lot of the time, it would develop naturally, and they wouldn't need training in order to do it. But an individual in a system where that is not the norm... A little bit of training could have gotten him there, but nobody had that to train him, and they really didn't want him to.

He could have figured it out… if he hadn't been an abused man held in isolation his entire life. It's really not on him.

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33 minutes ago, Wits instant noodles said:

Yeah I know how to I just didn’t realize and didn’t think it was significant enough to bother

My apologies then

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