- From: <Lovey@aol.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 10:35:23 EDT
- To: jchaiken@mindspring.com, w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
In a message dated 9/24/98 8:14:01 AM, jchaiken@mindspring.com wrote: <<<There is no such thing as universal sign language. Each community's sign language is a naturally formed language with it's own phonology, morphology, and syntax. If a Deaf American and a Deaf German meet on the street, they *won't* understand each other.>> Thank you Jess, I think I mentioned that it was the closest, LOL - how do you sign "Chicken Fried Steak" in German? I am more familiar with Word Order Signed English, ALS is a language in it's own - I have trouble understanding it, people from California use "SEES" and it thows me for a loop. I thought basic signs such as "stop", "go", "me", "eat", numbers etc were the same signs in all languages. But, Jess, isn't *Word-Order-Signed-English* more transferable? Please correct me if I am wrong, one can never know too much about such things. It would be an interesting experiment to use graphic images of Signs for naviagtion etc on a website except some would have to be animated gifs. ("Home" is a 2 motion sign) or require more than one image to represent each image. (?) I have seen animated gifs finger-spelling words on websites, a bit too much bytes. But surely using these would alienate those who do not read Sign or have trouble processing Signing. Back to graphic symbols!! Check out Bliss Symbolics (thanks Bruce) they are very easy to learn and use: http://home.istar.ca/~bci/blin2.htm KPR, (= Kindest personal regards) LK
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