Re: NonVerbal Conlang?

Would you say the part of your brain that deals with things like
gestures or pictures or what is the major part of sign language?

Words come from one part of the brain? But what about the part
of the brain for things like gestures/signs and then for written
words/signs?

Mike
Alaska


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Shannon" <fiziwig@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: NonVerbal Conlang?


> About 10 or 12 years ago I took a couple of semesters
> of ASL at the local community college, and as I
> learned each new sign I also devised a written glyph
> for it. By the time I was fluent in ASL I was also
> fluent in my parallel written pictographic language
> which was non-verbal in the sense that when I read it
> I tended not to think in "words" but in "signs", the
> same as when I was signing. I actually couldn't read
> it aloud very well, because that required me to think
> of the spoken word for each sign which was an extra
> mental step that I wasn't so fluent with.
>
> --gary
>