[Wikipedia-l] sign.wikepedia.org?

Mark Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Sun Feb 6 06:14:30 UTC 2005


Yes, that is why I advocate Stokoe.

Mark

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:31:04 -0500, Pierre Abbat <phma at 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
> --
> .i le babzba ba zbasu
> lo jbazbabu lo babjba
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