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Stokoe symbols for hand shapes #8

Open machiaveli88 opened 3 years ago

machiaveli88 commented 3 years ago

Hello, first of all thumbs up for this great work! Both the font and the comparison of the different notation systems are really remarkable. However, I noticed that in the comparison table of hand shapes, symbols are used for Stokoe that do not exist, e.g. T and S. There are 24 symbols without Special Features (of which there are only two that influence the hand shape and not three as shown here). In Stokoe, however, there are only 19 symbols. Have I misunderstood something here?

45+" hand shapes at "SN" are also given in the table above, which I also cannot exactly comprehend.

Nulpoints commented 1 year ago

No affiliation with the author of this project, but I have lurked here for years :) Totally love this take on an SL orthography.

Looking at the links you provided, and referencing Stokoe's dictionary I think it is a matter of perspective. Stokoe does explicitly illustrate 50+ handshapes using diacritics on the 19 'base' symbols. Also the 'diacritic' used for for the 'S' and 'T' handshapes are the subscript letters 's' and 't' on the symbol 'A', and Stokoe put an 's' and 't' in parentheticals next to the symbol which could be interpreted as an alternative 'spelling'.