I think I see the play on words, since each key is a “sign”. In practice though, Sign Languages tend to be a mix of logographic language where each sign represents an idea or concept and segmental language where you string a bunch of letters/ sounds together to make words. I can only really speak to American Sign Language (ASL), but generally you only finger spell to super short words/ acronyms (like ASL) or as a fallback for when someone might not know a sign / when something might not have a sign (like proper nouns).
The image in my head as I was typing was that, if I removed the laptop beneath my fingers, I’d be basically signing in space. Sign language works differently in several distinct ways, but I guess my thought was that, we communicate with computers the same way we communicate with deaf people. I mean we don’t say the same things to them, but we use hand gestures to communicate. When we “speak” to deaf people using sign language, we are actually “typing”, or I think a better comparison would be stenography, with hand and finger motions.
It was just a shower thought. I don’t shower though so YMMV.
I was going to comment that this reads like someone who hasn’t interacted with sign languages before, but I totally see where they are coming from. I only really have experience with ASL (and that is 1 semester in college), but I would imagine most if not all sign languages do a lot more than just finger-spelling.
I know basic sign language. I was just high and had a thought, it’s not to be meant taken as a scientific proposition, though I bet I could defend it. The struggle would be to find anyone finding it interesting enough to read, because it’s not, that’s why it’s just a dumb showerthought.
I think I see the play on words, since each key is a “sign”. In practice though, Sign Languages tend to be a mix of logographic language where each sign represents an idea or concept and segmental language where you string a bunch of letters/ sounds together to make words. I can only really speak to American Sign Language (ASL), but generally you only finger spell to super short words/ acronyms (like ASL) or as a fallback for when someone might not know a sign / when something might not have a sign (like proper nouns).
The image in my head as I was typing was that, if I removed the laptop beneath my fingers, I’d be basically signing in space. Sign language works differently in several distinct ways, but I guess my thought was that, we communicate with computers the same way we communicate with deaf people. I mean we don’t say the same things to them, but we use hand gestures to communicate. When we “speak” to deaf people using sign language, we are actually “typing”, or I think a better comparison would be stenography, with hand and finger motions.
It was just a shower thought. I don’t shower though so YMMV.
I was going to comment that this reads like someone who hasn’t interacted with sign languages before, but I totally see where they are coming from. I only really have experience with ASL (and that is 1 semester in college), but I would imagine most if not all sign languages do a lot more than just finger-spelling.
I know basic sign language. I was just high and had a thought, it’s not to be meant taken as a scientific proposition, though I bet I could defend it. The struggle would be to find anyone finding it interesting enough to read, because it’s not, that’s why it’s just a dumb showerthought.