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awelotta | 1 year ago

From the screenshots it looks like they just translate English to sign word-for-word, skipping words that are harder to translate. So it's not translating to (American) Sign Language, which has its own grammar and is not just English with function words removed.

It might be neat if they fingerspelled the missing words. IDK as to irl applicability either way tho

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bazeon|1 year ago

I speak a bit of Swedish sign language and we have a version called TAKK which is signs with spoken grammar. This is used in schools for special need kids since it’s much easier to teach staff. ASL probably has something similar.

Sad to see additional languages doesn’t seem to be in the pipe for the project but it’s a good initiative.