Hoi, I received from Adam Frost, the assistant of Valerie Sutton, an SVG image of the "world" sign. It does include the sign for w twice .... How is that for staying within the W theme and for appropriateness. He is so gracious to make it available under a CC-by license but will be really happy when it becomes part of the backside of the Wikipedia "world".. Thanks, GerardM
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:ASL-world.svg
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Obviously you can have a word in any sing language for the character "w". However, as sign languages are based on signs, there are no words in sign languages *using *the character w not do they use the sound that is expressed by the w.
When there is a "w" theme to the Wikipedia globe, you will have to do without anything that has relevance to the "w" character or sound in any way when you include SignWriting. You can artificially make a link be selecting "we" in for instance American Sign Language as suggested by Michael Snow. I take it that you all understand that there is as much relation with this "we" to the English "we" as there is to for instance the Japanese "we". Thanks, GerardM
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, In SignWriting you do not have a "w" .. no sounds you see :) Do you want
me
to get you a vector image of ASL thank you ? Thanks, GerardM
That's ridiculous, Gerard. Of course there's a "w" in sign language. You don't have to be able to hear to understand the concept of the letter "w". A "w" is a circle with three lines coming out of the top middle, forming a W.
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