use of sign language in Jordan

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Arguing about the relative merits of either Wikipedia or the Britainnica
will not help us further. Given that the good people of the Linguist list
are involved in making sure that Wikipedia gives a good representation of
the field of linguistics undermines your argument sufficiently.

The great thing about problems with Wikipedia is that you are empowered to
do something about all the things not are not complete, wrong or missing. I
am grateful to the good people of the linguist list because they make

PS academic is an homonym .. check out what Wordnet has to say about it :)
.. I hoped that you would appreciate it as a gentle joke
Thanks,
     Gerard

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=academic

On 9/27/07, Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Where you argue that experts have a different vocabulary, it helps when
> > their definitions are readily available and are unambiguously defined.
> > Without this they are like a secret cabal that do mysterious things that
> > nobody should try to understand and where the application is .. academic.
>
>
> Then it helps to look at a real encyclopedia:
> http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9355077
>
> Okay, that sounded more snobbish than I intended -- I use Wikipedia as
> much as the next nerd. But the major difference between conventional
> encyclopedias (lohipediae?) and the wiki-wiki variety is that  the former
> uses acknowledged experts to edit the entries.
>
> Iconicity seems to have an equivalent in tonality. Tonality is captured in
> > alphabetic systems just fine.
>
>
> Do you mean the tones (e.g. in Mandarin) are iconic? To my knowledge,
> tones are usually represented with a small set of symbols (often
> diacritics). A small collection of relative changes in pitch (often 10 or
> fewer) does not capture the richness of imagic iconicity in signed languages
> (alphabets capture diagrammatic iconicity just fine).
>
> -Dan.
>
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