03-19-2006, 02:46 AM
CeoranaMar 19 2006, 01:24 AM GrosseschnauzerMar 18 2006, 03:20 PM Isn't ASL letter based, that is one signs each letter of a word, except for certain common words that has their special sign? [/quote]
From what I understand, it's word-based, with letter symbols for uncommon words. [/quote]
As far as I know, all sign languages use fingerspelling mostly for proper names, although person often have an own sign assigned to them for quicker reference.
As a matter of fact, sign languages are quite different from spoken languages, and one language community doesn't have to share the same sign language; for example, American Sign Language is related closely to Old French Sign Language, but mutually unintelligible with British Sign Language.
So, what about including a passage like this:
Quote: ACKNOWLEDGING the infeasibility of an International Sign Language for the international signing community as the diversity of sign languages is as great as that of spoken languages and the fact that sign languages usually are not simple transcriptions of a spoken equivalent into sign, but fully-fledged languages of their own,[/quote]
Edited because, dammit, I know English grammar!
From what I understand, it's word-based, with letter symbols for uncommon words. [/quote]
As far as I know, all sign languages use fingerspelling mostly for proper names, although person often have an own sign assigned to them for quicker reference.
As a matter of fact, sign languages are quite different from spoken languages, and one language community doesn't have to share the same sign language; for example, American Sign Language is related closely to Old French Sign Language, but mutually unintelligible with British Sign Language.
So, what about including a passage like this:
Quote: ACKNOWLEDGING the infeasibility of an International Sign Language for the international signing community as the diversity of sign languages is as great as that of spoken languages and the fact that sign languages usually are not simple transcriptions of a spoken equivalent into sign, but fully-fledged languages of their own,[/quote]
Edited because, dammit, I know English grammar!