Mark,
You are very right on this - it is built on the visual reception (and all that) so it has to be built on that way.
Often people find it a pity when they start to realise that its not just signs that can accompany English (it doesnt work that way!!! It will end up looking VERY boring and meaningless - even if one is good with one's English) - it is often into their 3rd sign lang class ;)
Shane
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l- bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark Williamson Sent: 28 January 2005 02:01 To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] sign.wikepedia.org?
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.
Mark
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:58:04 +0000 (GMT), Nicholas Moreau beaubeaver@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Would it be feasable to just have a program that takes the normal
English, French, Hindu... Wikipedia, and just creates a Flash character that signs the article out?
The animation would, in my dream world, change automatically, as the
normal English Wikipedia was updated in its normal Latin text format.
Nick/"Zanimum"
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