Re: CHAT: My new treasure

En réponse à Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:

>
> Hm.  I *think* I got the idea form the Ethnologue.  I could be wrong.
> They
> could be wrong.
>
Since the Ethnologue does have such an entry, let's say they are wrong :)) .

>
> I just found a site on the net at the University of Lyon (guess I was
> really
> wrong!) comparing the finger alphabets of several SL's.  The French
> and
> American are VERY similar but there are some real differences.  Our H
> is
> your N.  We have different X's. Minor differences is several letters
> including F, Y and I.  Italian is also very close to French, but again
> there
> are some striking differences.  But Swedish?  Man! is it different!
>
I've seen the site. It also has Chinese (or was that Taiwanese?) finger
alphabets. Even different :)) .

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 :(( ).

Christophe.

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