Recent content by johnesco

Using Apple iChat does anyone here have Apple iChat?

Mexican food inspired idea The waitress asked me if I wanted flour tortillas... what if she was really asking if I wanted flower tortillas? Would a written version of sign have two signs that are SIGNED the same but have two different meanings? -John

That's not quite right ok one tiny nit-pick. I'm not arguing by any means that ASL is not a language. But it does NOT contain PHONEmes http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAPhoneme.htm PHONEmes are about SOUND. phon = sound telephone, phonics...

More vagueness Here are a few more ramblings, you seemed have turned my latest one into something that made sense. Chinese is odd. There is 1 major way to write it, but many versions of (Mandarin, Cantonese, etc) of pronunciation. So if a written sign language was made that did not...

Hearie learning ASL The strangest issue I have with sign is keeping notes. I can write English "gloss" for signs, but I confuse the meaning of the sign it stands for, with the English word. While English has some representation of sound when you write it, it's not always phonetic. So...

Esl? I thought ESL meant "English as a Second Language" Do you mean SEE? "Signed Exact English"

Computers hurt drawing Computers still can't replace drawing, and most artists knew that. However, so many teachers and students who THOUGHT that computers would replace drawing, stopped learning how to draw. Now there are very few drawing teachers from the lack of interested students...

New Relay system Maybe they need a TTY to English to Chinese relay system :-)

she added "cat" In the clip she only corrects herself to "Cat! I meant pussy cat!"

Mean joke? There's a joke in the show "Family Guy" where they are having a "special Olympics". During a panning shot, they announce, "There's the wheelchair team, the blind team, hmm, no sign of the deaf team" and then it cuts to a hotel room with 4 or 5 people all asleep snoring...

Excuses Many people who hear, also have bad English skills for the same reasons, they don't read. Often they just try to write like they speak... and do not speak English well. Reading is the solution for both deaf and hearing who want to have better English. I've heard the exact...

ASL insult I think it's a bit of an insult (to ASL) to call sign "shorthand" Trying to make sign "more like English" failed, oralism is not a solution for everyone, So how do we fill the gap of making sure deaf students can communicate in English? There are ASL clubs for hearies learning...

... and don't forget about using cocaine and mercury as medicine!

Virtual Boy 2 Woah! talk about junk for bucks! The ideas are just like those that "sound" great at the time... but don't work out in real life. The pen for GAME control in Metroid looks TERRIBLE! And how can you HOLD the game AND use the the D pad AND use the pen!!!! These guys are...

Sad story The saddest part is... The DOG IS STILL HUNGRY!