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Charles Butler Date: Tue Jun 30, 1998 6:00 pm Subject: Re: Pictograms | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The thread included these comments: > Congratulations, Joe, on your dissertation. It seems that you have > established a new meaning for the word "chirographic", and thank you for > listing SignWriting under this new category. It will be interesting to see if the new term becomes widespread. > > The old term "chirography" means "handwriting". The word "chiro" stems from the Greek word for "hand". It really means "penmanship", and has nothing to do with manual alphabets or any language that uses the hands to communicate. > The proper term is cheironomy, not cheirography. Cheirography is handwriting, cheironomy is gesture language (as the word was used in the 14th century). The word now means a gesture system indicating a musical chant (such as the Kodali hand-sign system for solfeggio singing). So a cheironomic alphabet is Sign Writing. Kodali would be a specific application of cheironomy. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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