[Wikipedia-l] sign.wikepedia.org?

Fri Jan 28 14:56:23 UTC 2005

Mark,

You are very right on this - it is built on the visual reception (and all
that) so it has to be built on that way.

Often people find it a pity when they start to realise that its not just
signs that can accompany English (it doesn’t work that way!!! It will end up
looking VERY boring and meaningless - even if one is good with one's
English) - it is often into their 3rd sign lang class ;)

Shane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikipedia-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-
> bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark Williamson
> Sent: 28 January 2005 02:01
> To: wikipedia-l at wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] sign.wikepedia.org?
> 
> Signed languages are not, as many believe, mere gestural equivalents
> of the national spoken language, rather they have different
> grammatical structures, different idioms, and different semantic
> categories. Thus, conversion between English and ASL is nothing les
> than machine translation, except that you also need a synthesizer for
> the signs.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:58:04 +0000 (GMT), Nicholas Moreau
> <beaubeaver at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Would it be feasable to just have a program that takes the normal
> English, French, Hindu... Wikipedia, and just creates a Flash character
> that signs the article out?
> >
> > The animation would, in my dream world, change automatically, as the
> normal English Wikipedia was updated in its normal Latin text format.
> >
> > Nick/"Zanimum"
> >
> >
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