Re: NonVerbal Conlang?

the "t" mustn't be working on my keyboard

I'll BET that...

-----Original Message-----
From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu]On
Behalf Of Scotto Hlad
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 8:57 AM
To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
Subject: Re: NonVerbal Conlang?


It's amazing what can happen if you type a sentence when you are in the
first stage of sleep. It is also amazing that I am charged with replying to
correspondence at work as well. I write all day at work. That sentence
should have said:

I'll be that in time you could have [read the glyphs that were written
down.]

Sorry.
Scotto

-----Original Message-----
From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu]On
Behalf Of Sai Emrys
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 4:35 AM
To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
Subject: Re: NonVerbal Conlang?


On 6/23/06, Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...> wrote:
> I'd be though in time you could have.
.... huh?

> Are there any instances of languages that combine spoken word and
gestures?

In ASL, there's something called "sim-com" [simultaneous
communication; sign is S right / C left, out/back alternating at chin
level], which is when you speak and sign the same thing in both modes
simultaneously - mainly used in normal life by interpreters when
talking to mixed hearing/deaf audience, or by some deaf / HOH people
when talking to bad signers (like me :-P) who might need the verbal
AND signing cues to follow along. Originally it's an instructional
technique though, for training lipreading IIRC.

I don't know of any ASL usage that involves DIFFERENT information in
each mode, or anything more complicated than very basic gestural
additions to speech...

It is one thing I'd be very interested in, though; optimized
multi-modal communication is one of my desiderata.

 - Sai