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Martin 'Lolly' Lorenz Date: Tue Aug 17, 1999 5:48 pm Subject: sign writing principles? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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hello to all i am currently writing my diploma thesis and try to adopt some principles of sign writing to a human-computer-interface design. what i would need to know and can't find anywhere (or am i just searching in the wrong places?) is: what are the problems, that make writing signlanguages more difficult than writing oral language. ...what i guess is, that the 4th dimension introduced through space in sign language makes it more difficult to transpose it to the 2-dimensional paper. is there a principle rule followed by SignWriting" i also wonder if the SignWriting system is (as it seems for me) somehow related to chinese script. to me it seems that both are somehow logographic. i am not a linguist so i probably lack some basics in linguistics that would help me understand the problem better. (and english is not my mother-tounge...) thanks a lot -- Martin "Lolly" Lorenz Microsoft, I think, is fundamentally an evil company. - JAMES H. CLARK https://hasiti.mir.at/~martin the more daring thing mostly is to question the known than to explore the unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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