Re: CHAT: My new treasure

>From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
>Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:46:53 +0100
>
>En réponse à Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:
<snippy-poo>
>I've seen the site. It also has Chinese (or was that Taiwanese?) finger
>alphabets. Even different :)) .
Well, that's a manual version of the Chinese pinyin or bepepmefe.
Techincally, it exists here in Taiwan, too but I've NEVER seen a Deaf person
use it and since only one Deaf person I know knows ANYTHING about how to use
the pinyin it doesn't seem likley to be used here.  The hand shapes seem to
be an od mixture of approximations of the pinyin shapes and Franco-American
letters used as equivilants to the pinyin in the Hanyu Pinyin.

>
>Here
> > in
> > Taiwan . . . well, it's weird.  It's almost like names are superflous.
> > You
> > meet some one and they start a conversation and never tell you ther
> > name.
> > Afterward, you ask a mutual friend/acquaintance and they may or may
> > not
> > know.  But then you get "I was talking to the bald guy with the
> > motorcycle,
> > you know him . . . "  "I went to see the tall guy with big eyes . . ."
> > "Did
> > you know the short girl who makes the stupid faces is sick?"
> >
>
>Since I know that sign language can be pretty compact for such things, it
>could
>very well be that those periphrases: "tall guy with big eyes", or "short
>girl
>who makes the stupid faces" become real names, à la "Dances with Wolfs"
>(sorry,
>all other examples I could have come up would have been even more stupid
>:(( ).
>
Well, that could be.  In which case my TSL name would seem to be FOREIGN.
:-( Wahhh!  At least it beats BIGNOSE which I got them to stop using.

Adam

>Christophe.
>

_________________________________________________________________
Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com