[SPLIT] ASL resources

Nope, my cool idea

(actual ASL signs) doesn't look like it will work, because they don't have specific enough urls available. Here's a nice

site, though, if you're interested:

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm

And here's where I

got the fingerspelling:

http://where.com/cgi-bin/asl.pl

sozobe,



It's pretty cool!

I'd found that site when looking for the other one.

BTW I already put the script

online but this is just a temp link (it needs serious work and will also be moved in a few

days):

http://members.lycos.co.uk/cravendekere/asl/signs.phtml

If you know ASL

well I can fix up the images in the script. Heck if ya want you can take pictures of your own hands doing it and I'll use

that.

[img]http://members.lycos.co.uk/cravendekere/asl/sign.php?userString=thanks+craven[/img:92e

257ec9e]

Hmph, the first one didn't work.

Yup, I'm fluent in ASL. The MSU browser is pretty good; would be

awfully hard to do it myself for lots of reasons, but especially the movement, which is vital to meaning. Not only

directional but speed, smooth or choppy, etc.

sozobe,

I

split thi sinto a new topic so we can discuss this.

Here are the images:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/cravendekere/asl/img/

The reason it didn't work is because the image is temporary.

hmm, the script is

working weird. It's using individual images instead of putting them together like it does on my network.

I'll need

to work on it.

If you want I can try but no promises that it will be ready anytime soon.

This split function

is great! Didn't know about

that.



(Now don't

go gettin' any ideas -- in the deaf community, that's used as roughly the equivalent of "you rock!")

Doing something

with ASL would be interesting and fun, but I think it should be far, far, FAR down on the to-do list. English is my first

language, and there's lots of online resources I can point people to if we want to get into tutorial

territory.

Generally speaking, I'm always up for anything and everything ASL-related; questions, resources, whatever.

So if anyone here want to know more, have at it!

Split really IS

very cool, now everyone can feel free to go off topic whenever they want. If it evolves enough the moderators will make it a

new thread.

I'm working on a merge topics feature but that is tricky.

That last symbol really looks like a

your rock or I love this band symbol.

May i ask where you get your ASL background from?

Believe me it's way way down there. But I'll be

putting up generator style scripts so that you can translate on this site, generate ASCII art, reverse text etc. It's not a

priority but just something that I'll add for fun.

I'm looking into a morse code script and many many more.

The sign is

actually ILY, or "I love you" -- the I, L, and Y handshapes combined. But, as I said, it's not to be taken too literally.



Craven, have we actually come this far in our acquaintance without the fact that I'm deaf coming up? I yam.

Been deaf since I was a teenager. Totally, completely, gee is that a jet taking off over my head? deaf. Been culturally

Deaf (language, humor, behavioral mores etc.) since late college. Well, bi-cultural. Hubby's hearing, and I'm still

hearing (culturally) in a lot of ways.

sozobe,

I

really had no idea. And it's not like I heard that and forgot it. I am certain that I was never told that. I guess it just

doesn't come up in a written medium.

Last year I was teaching English at a school for deaf children (every now and

then I get a conscience and do some charity teaching) and I really wish I could sign. I'm able to understand a lot of it

(especially the two hand way of signing) but would like to learn more. I felt very helpless when trying to teach so that's

why I found the script and started learning.

Hiya,

It's

funny how it works; half the time I feel like people are saying "there she goes again with the deaf stuff!!" and the other

half people are like "WHAT???". Jes, for example, has seen me talk about this puh-lenty, while I think it's news to others

here, too. I'm always quick to bring it up if it's relevant.

Anyway, yeah, part of why I like these online forums

(fora?) so much is that it's a non-issue, communication-wise.

Here's one of my threads on Abuzz that probably goes

into things most thoroughly:

http://nytimes.abuzz.com/interaction/s.258607/discussion

Gotta get to bed. Catch

y'all later...

Great topic Sozobe and one close to my heart. When I worked for SSA in D.C. I worked in the office that serviced Gallaudet and interacted with many of the students. They were great but often frustrated with us. However, two of my co-workers did learn to sign and all was well. On the occasions I was able to help the students with rudimentary signing and notes (way to much trouble) eventually we got a TTY and that was great for all concerned.

Gallaudet University Press

Hi Joanne,

You worked for the SSA, in DC, eh? Cool. Must've been interesting. I guess that was before 1990 and the ADA; now the SSA is required to provide interpreters, if needed. The tty sounds like a great solution.

Well yes Soz, quite a few years before 1990, 11/76 through 4/78. In addtition to the TTY we had a claims representative that was very good with ASL go on campus twice a week. I do not know if they still do that but it was great for the student.

I just found out that the new Survivor will have a Gallaudet alum! (Deaf.) How cool! Will be sooooooo interested in seeing how that plays out.

http://entertainment.yahoo.com/entnews/eo/20030113/104249070000.html

That is so cool and it is so refreshing to have good news these days. I caught the tail end of this FBEye the other day and it was great. The show actually addressed some real issues between the co-workers because of the assumed limitations of the new agent addressed realistically, I thought, and then resolved.

Sue Thomas: FBEye