[sw-l] Sandy's sign for "house"

[Sandy Fleming]

Hi Ingvild!

Well, my reasoning is that these are Egnlish glosses and "big house" is
English while "house-big" isn't. Too much departure from English syntax
for more complex signs could result in confusion.

If you really want to search for all the signs with "house" in them then
you should use the "any part of..." option.

There seems to me to be some inevitable conflict with trying to use a
single dictionary for both practical use and as a linguistic resource.
But then, the features for practical use - SignText and SignMail - are
right there, while more academic projects are offered their own
specialist facilities.

Therefore I'm inclined to gloss signs with everyday users of
SignText/SignMail in mind, rather than more specialist users.

This is why I'm not too keen on the CL- prefix either, although I'm open
to discussion on this  :)

Sandy

Ingvild Roald wrote:

>sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu skriver:
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>>Hi Val, Shane,
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>>I've renamed my sign to "big-house" in the dictionary.
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>Would it not be better for looking-up purposes, if the name was changed to
>"house_big"?
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>Ingvild
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