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Edit: here's the first part, you should watch it first.

Of course I as a non-signing hearie nincompoop have my own ideas about SL writing that I am definitely very qualified to have. Namely I wonder if because SLs have rhymes, classifiers, and a comparatively high level of iconicity, that they might be particularly suited for Kanji-style logograms, with Furigana-esque ruby characters used to denote "simultaneous articulation" of things like questions and negation etc. in a similar way to how SL glossing already works. This logographic system could be used alongside the purely phonetic SL writing systems like SignWriting, in the same way as Kanji and Kana or Hanzi and Pinyin/Zhuyin, because either system would basically be using different means to achieve different ends.

But that's just a theory, a Deaf Theoryyyyy

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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The reason why I haven't learned any sign language is because I'm sort of frozen, I guess? I know that I should learn Norwegian Sign Language (NTS), and I've found various resources for that such as Ingrid Strand, TegnTV, SignWiki, MineTegn TegnWiki (although the main page for MineTegn redirects to a page saying that the project has ceased operations, nyoro~n), Døveforbundet and their social media pages, a few shows on NRK, a few books at the library, and I've just now heard of the app Toleio which I intend to try after I finish writing this comment.

Edit: Yeah, Toleio seems pretty good thus far, but I'm always a bit skeptical of language learning gamification apps.

However, the specific, unique challenges posed by learning sign language in general and NTS in particular have left me wondering about how exactly I should approach the task. My current thought is that although I'd be going against what I've been told is respectful of the Deaf community, that I should prioritize learning to sign at all over learning NTS specifically. Which is to say that I should follow the same path that I used for learning spoken languages, where I start with a constructed sign language based on one or more natural sign languages, and use this constructed sign language as what I call a "boomerang language" for learning NTS — in the same way as learning Finnish could be a boomerang for Northern Sámi, Japanese for Chinese and Korean, Arabic for Tigrinya, and indeed my 2016 conlang was a boomerang for learning Russian.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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