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Question of the Week / Re: QotW - 24.04.19 - What language do the profoundly deaf think in?
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...which is why I said "more different..."
Apropos diagrams, the Civil Service annual personnel reviews used to score extra marks for foreign language proficiency. During my tenure at a government laboratory my group was visited by a couple of our Austrian equivalents who spoke no English but wanted to replicate some equipment I had designed. We spent a day with machine drawings and circuit diagrams and they departed fully satisfied, so my colleagues amended their personnel records "fluent in all known languages as far as is relevant to the job."
Apropos diagrams, the Civil Service annual personnel reviews used to score extra marks for foreign language proficiency. During my tenure at a government laboratory my group was visited by a couple of our Austrian equivalents who spoke no English but wanted to replicate some equipment I had designed. We spent a day with machine drawings and circuit diagrams and they departed fully satisfied, so my colleagues amended their personnel records "fluent in all known languages as far as is relevant to the job."