I will be very interested to see a completed 3D Wikipedia globe, and one thought strikes me - Wikipedia T shirts would be able to show front and back.
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gerard Meijssen Sent: 25 July 2008 01:58 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] What is on the back of the logo?
Hoi, Sign languages are discreet languages and SignWriting allows you to write them. There are MANY sign languageshttp://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90008and there is no way of knowing if this sign exist in any of the 120 othe sign languages and what it means if it exists.
As to likelyhood to sharing the same sign, American and Danish Sign Language have their base in the French Sign Language. British Sign Language on the other hand does not. I have heard that for really specialised terminology many signlanguages share the same sign.
NB the reason for choosing ASL is, that they have a request for a WIkipedia and they hope to show no sooner then October how to make this a reality. Thanks, GerardM
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
2008/7/25 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, I have been told that the top part of the sign can be removed as this combination of signs is rare and is likely to be understood to be word.
The
top part indicates movement and position. So for a big image, it can be
the
complete sign and for a small ball the subset suffices.
The other question... I understand there's a degree of mutual intelligibility between various sign languages, usually at the simpler end of things, but varying heavily by language and various factors; and that signwriting can (at least in theory) represent pretty much any sign language. Is this an ASL-specific sign, or would it be understood by, say, an NZSL or BSL reader?
We probably want to make sure we don't accidentally put up the symbol for "lies" in another sign language ;-)
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