Re: Some thoughts on mutli-modal (signing / speech) languages and communication.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:48 AM, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> There is: Deaf signers shout.
FWIW, they're also perfectly capable of shouting with their voice.
That's mostly only done to get a hearing person's attention.

> And, of course, ask any Deaf signer, and they sign just fine with a
> passenger while driving a car.  ASL, for example, can be signed rather
> effectively with one hand, if it's absolutely necessary (two very
> proficient signers are required.  I've seen video; it's pretty amazing).
I've been in a car talking with a Deaf signer (who was driving).

It's rather like if he had e.g. a package in his left hand; his right
was relatively free to sign, but the left was fixed.

Perfectly understandable, though not as good as full mobility. Helped
a lot by ASL having major handshape-similarity and movement-similarity
constraints.

> A thought occurs.  The photograph came about before the phonograph.
> And as long as you have a photograph, you can, with a series of them,
> produce a "video"--even if it's just a flipbook.  Wouldn't, then, motion
> capture have preceded sound recording?
D00d: they're called "silent films". Y'know, before "talkies"? :-P

Early on this was a problem just because of exposure time - a few
minutes - but it happened, non-hypothetically.

- Sai

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