Yes, that is why I advocate Stokoe.
Mark
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:31:04 -0500, Pierre Abbat phma@phma.hn.org wrote:
On Thursday 27 January 2005 21:01, Mark Williamson wrote:
Signed languages are not, as many believe, mere gestural equivalents of the national spoken language, rather they have different grammatical structures, different idioms, and different semantic categories. Thus, conversion between English and ASL is nothing les than machine translation, except that you also need a synthesizer for the signs.
It is possible to write sign languages, but SignWriting involves two-dimensional placement of characters in various orientations, which is not easy to encode as a character stream.
phma
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