[Sw-l] [SPAM] Re: Video+Emoji chat for Signing and SignWriting communities

Wed Feb 16 13:50:30 UTC 2022

HI John Carlson,

Thank you for mentioning "Natural Semantic Metalanguage" (NSM). Although I
am not into computer programming, gaming, or anything like that, I find
your messages valuable for other uses! For instance, I am taking your
mention of NSM for my study in linguistics and curriculum development.

Have a good and safe day,

AnnaGrace

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 7:44 AM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> The only thing I have so far is NSM-DALIA.  NSM is Natural Semantic
> Metalanguage.  Michael Turner introduced both of them to me.
> https://github.com/Yakushima/NSM-DALIA
> It doesn't have anything to do with Signing or SignWriting, but offers
> some in terms of translation.  It looks like the author of NSM-DALIA has
> made his/her work pretty impenetrable.
>
> My font design was more about turning on and off pixels.  I designed a
> cursive font for ASCII visible characters.
>
> I did some work on translating from NSM atoms (in English) to Signing
> Videos in ASL and SignWriting (for English), mostly using web page
> scraping.  It was a pretty basic hack with symbols only, no phrases, per
> se.  It looks like you're working on vectors and surfaces.  Are you
> categorizing those, or doing something different?
>
> Let me know if you want help hooking any of your work up to Discord or
> other communication software. I pride myself on developing
> multi-user software (mesh editor, solitaire, chat).
>
> John
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 2:51 AM Amit Moryossef <amitmoryossef at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi John -
>> As for font development, this is an open issue
>> <https://github.com/sutton-signwriting/font-ttf/issues/4> with
>> SignWriting.
>> I have recently hired someone to develop this font, so if you have
>> experience and want to take a jab at it yourself, or are available to
>> consult the developer, please let me know!
>>
>> As for a translation software between sign language (I assume as a video)
>> and SignWriting - I'm working on it for my PhD.
>> If you have any specific idea how to accomplish this, please let me know
>> as well. Otherwise, in the next few weeks I'll be introducing some basic
>> translation software.
>>
>>
>> Amit
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:28 AM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My name is John C.  I’ve been a lurker for a while.      I wonder if
>>> there are other online communities for deaf people. I wonder if there’s a
>>> place for real-time or instantaneous communication in SignWriting and other
>>> Sign Languages.   In the last couple of years, the Discord chat software
>>> has become popular among gamers and disabled communities, it offers
>>> features like emojis and video chat.  So, I’ve been curious to hook up
>>> signing video chat and SignWriting on a Discord “server,” which hosts many
>>> “channels.” I have a couple of people wanting to write a Discord bot, and I
>>> thought it would be cool to try to write a translation bot between one or
>>> more sign languages and SignWriting.   I think the first step may be to
>>> hook up a SignWriting composition system to Discord, even if it’s copy and
>>> paste.
>>>
>>> My experience involves writing chat systems and client bots and software
>>> since the 80s.   I have been retired for many years, but remain active in
>>> online communities.   My cohort wants to get involved in writing bots in
>>> Java, which I have used for many years.   I also have experience writing a
>>> font or two for computer  terminals (and old term for keyboards and screens
>>> hooked up to a computer).
>>>
>>> The beginning of a discussion…
>>>
>>> John
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