Melikes this. A new universe to me, which like so much else I-ain't-got-time-for-but-I'm-readin'-anyway.
Your mention of Pidgin Sign at the top got my immediate attention, 'cause I'm a lifelong language geek and a careerlong linguistic researcher* and I wrote my postgrad work on ASL. SO naturally I'm interested!
I was going to disagree with "concept-oriented", but then I realized 1) this is not the place to do it, and 2) we're talking about an interspecies sl, between two (at least in this story) species with very different body structures. So Never Mind that. Unless you want to discuss it, either here or out-of-thread.
* ← That's my icon as Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody, but I'm not using his rather pedantic writing style thispost.
(You know how hard it is to type when your beloved kittycat is busy trying to macerate your arm with her allergenic barbed tongue?)
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Date: 2013-08-23 01:54 am (UTC)Melikes this. A new universe to me, which like so much else I-ain't-got-time-for-but-I'm-readin'-anyway.
Your mention of Pidgin Sign at the top got my immediate attention, 'cause I'm a lifelong language geek and a careerlong linguistic researcher* and I wrote my postgrad work on ASL. SO naturally I'm interested!
I was going to disagree with "concept-oriented", but then I realized
1) this is not the place to do it, and
2) we're talking about an interspecies sl, between two (at least in this story) species with very different body structures.
So Never Mind that. Unless you want to discuss it, either here or out-of-thread.
* ← That's my icon as Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody, but I'm not using his rather pedantic writing style thispost.
(You know how hard it is to type when your beloved kittycat is busy trying to macerate your arm with her allergenic barbed tongue?)