03-19-2006, 02:20 AM
Maybe some clarifications would be in order.
Isn't ASL letter based, that is one signs each letter of a word, except for certain common words that has their special sign? If that is the case, the letter part of sign language would only present a problem where the non-English language contains a letter not used in English. There might have to be a series of international sign languages that vary depending on whether the underlying language uses the roman, cyrillic, hebrew, arabic, chinese, hindi, etc. alphabet. The common word sign langauge would be the same regardless.
If my understanding of this is incorrect, please correct me then. I'm sure I would not be the only one who would find such clarifying information usefukm and I would suspect that explanation would probably need to be included in some form in the proposal.
Isn't ASL letter based, that is one signs each letter of a word, except for certain common words that has their special sign? If that is the case, the letter part of sign language would only present a problem where the non-English language contains a letter not used in English. There might have to be a series of international sign languages that vary depending on whether the underlying language uses the roman, cyrillic, hebrew, arabic, chinese, hindi, etc. alphabet. The common word sign langauge would be the same regardless.
If my understanding of this is incorrect, please correct me then. I'm sure I would not be the only one who would find such clarifying information usefukm and I would suspect that explanation would probably need to be included in some form in the proposal.