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Can deaf people understand textspeak?

Asked by KatawaGrey (21483points) March 24th, 2009

If someone has been deaf their entire life, I’m just wondering if they would understand the phonetics of textspeak. If you had never heard that “c” sounds like “see” and “2” sounds like “to” and “u” sounds like “you” would you be able to understand it? Or am I completely missing the ball on this?

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