[Wikipedia-l] sign.wikepedia.org?

Pierre Abbat phma at phma.hn.org
Sun Feb 6 05:31:04 UTC 2005


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
-- 
.i le babzba ba zbasu
lo jbazbabu lo babjba



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