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From:
Charles Butler Date: Sat May 6, 2000 4:33 am Subject: Re: SW in Databases | ||||||||
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Is the full ASL dictionary as you have compiled it in the past ten years available on line for browsing? How could one get a print out of it? Having it as a published volume in both English-ASL order and ASL-English order would be extremely helpful to show people the facility of Sign Writing who remain unconvinced. Since the change over to Sign Writing being organized into the 1-10 motif, has there been a concerted effort to come up with an agreed on order to the handshapes? That is, does a closed fist come before an open one, does a crooked finger come before or after a straight finger, example, is the order "S", "O", "1", "X", "2", "quote" or some other order? ... and where do the contact symbols come into the order. If one were to have the signs in a Lotus 1-2-3 file, for example, and hit "sort" on a column, how would the signs, as signs, be ordered? Since the coding on a keyboard is entirely for convenient of the typer, the underlying computer code would not be a good indication of "sign-symbol-sequence", but must be structured from outside. Has this been done--recently? With all the research that is being done and the thousands of pages of signwriting, the dictionary would surpass in size most of the ASL dictionaries now available. Charles Butler | ||||||||
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