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From: Fran.O'Gorman@f94.n272.z1.fidonet.org (Fran O'Gorman)
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Subject: Re: ASL as a Conceptual Language
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Date: 30 May 91 03:56:10 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

 JW> Fran, that book you mentioned that has science terminology and
 JW> other such; kindly give me all the info you can on it.

The book is the Signed English School Book by Harry Bornstein and
Karen L. Saulnier (illustrated by Ralph R. Miller, Sr.) published
by Kendall Green Publications, Gallaudet University Press,
Washington, D.C. with a copyright of 1987.  It appears designed to
help an interpreter in a school settings and has signs according
to disciplines, humanities, math, science, chemistry, social
science, it gets very specific at times...

 JW> At CSUN I came up with 800 new
 JW> signs for science and other technical terms. I just wonder if any
 JW> of them show up in the book. I did mine as part of a
 JW> scholarship/workstudy requirement.

Hmm, was it that if a specific sign didn't exist (except to
fingerspell it) that based on the logic and conventions of the
language you were asked to develop those signs?  Interesting, if
so.  I see they replaced the sign for computer (the old one made
reference to old-fashioned tape drives with 'c' hands) ...the only
sign I've 'made up' is for deodorant --just because I couldn't
find it and couldn't picture a chapter on hygiene without it.
What else, but lifting the arm and applying it... I'm sure if I
found it in a book, that's what it would be.  :-)

--Fran

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