Nominal vs Cardinal numbers in ASL

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Grin...so in Arabic documents they use Hindu numbers instead of Arabic  
numbers - ha!

So let's number pages as we wish...each document can be done  
differently depending on the author, the layout artist, the  
publisher...and it is all ok...

Meanwhile there is nothing wrong with writing page numbers in a Sign  
Language too...they are useful tools for teaching to read numbers for  
beginning readers...which would be an argument for using the cardinal  
numbers for page numbers in ASL, since the cardinal version of ASL  
numbers are what most people know best...they know the nominal but  
they have not thought about it much and maybe it will seem more  
correct to do the first five numbers with the palm facing the  
chest...just a thought...

Val ;-)

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On Feb 8, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Adam Frost wrote:

> I just did a search on Wikipedia for Chinese numerals. It said that  
> they used to use the characters for the numbers, but now are mostly  
> using the Arabic numerals.  I also found in the Arabic numeral  
> article that the Arabs use what they call "Hindu numerals" which  
> were the numbers that you saw on the Arabic translation that you  
> referred to a few emails ago.
>
> Adam
>
> On Feb 8, 2009, at 3:09 PM, SignWriting wrote:
>
>> How do Chinese documents number their pages? In Chinese? Or do they  
>> use Arabic numbers now in their own style?
>
>
>
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