<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">but the A-Ok sign means "zero" or "worth little or nothing" for French<div>so be cautious about what might be universal</div><div><br></div><div>judy</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Apr 23, 2012, at 7:56 AM, Adam Frost wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I suspect that Adam is referring to what some people would call "universal gestures" that are generally known regardless of knowing different languages. Some examples are thumbs up and A-ok. <br><br>Adam<br>The other one ;-)<br><br>On Apr 23, 2012, at 10:43 AM, "Mark A. Mandel" <<a href="mailto:mamandel@LDC.UPENN.EDU">mamandel@LDC.UPENN.EDU</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Adam,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">What do you mean by "emblems"? Things like "come here", "stop", "hi", "be quiet"? Group membership or other (semi-)secret signs in the non-SL sense of "(secret) sign", such as gang or lodge recognition signals? <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Best,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mark Mandel<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 12.04.20, at 8:52 PM, Adam Schembri wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Don,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">What do you mean by 'gestures'? Co-speech gesture? Emblems? Mime?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Cheers,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Adam Schembri<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On 21/04/12 1:48 , "Grushkin, Donald A" <<a href="mailto:grushkind@CSUS.EDU">grushkind@CSUS.EDU</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Has there ever been a study investigating whether nonsigners with no<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">exposure to ASL or other signed languages can detect the difference<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">between gestures and natural signed languages such as ASL? I seem to<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">think I did come across something like that once, but cannot rememmber<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">where or who, if it's not a figment of my imagination.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">--Don Grushkin<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>