What's Deoxyribonucleotide in Sign Language?
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#2This dude is awesome. Props to him for tackling a challenging situation head on. I wish for him the best!
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#3This comment is made in full good faith.
I get that being clear/accurate/specific is important, but isn't this what slang/shortnames are used for?
Even in the most conservative engineering positions I've had, slang was used alot, since there are tons of things that have overly long/descriptive/technical terms which no one wants to use in everyday language/communication. The only time you would use them would be in documentation, and even then many times there is a glossary and the shortname would be used.
Re: What's Deoxyribonucleotide in Sign Language?
#4This comment is made in full good faith. I get that being clear/accurate/specific is important, but isn't this what slang/shortnames are used for? Even in the most conservative engineering positions I've had, slang was used alot, since there are tons of things that have overly long/descriptive/technical terms which no one wants to use in everyday language/communication. The only time you would use them would be in do…
But isn't that exactly what he's doing by inventing these signs--creating shorter names so that it isn't necessary to finger spell everything out explicitly?
Re: What's Deoxyribonucleotide in Sign Language?
#5This comment is made in full good faith. I get that being clear/accurate/specific is important, but isn't this what slang/shortnames are used for? Even in the most conservative engineering positions I've had, slang was used alot, since there are tons of things that have overly long/descriptive/technical terms which no one wants to use in everyday language/communication. The only time you would use them would be in do…
From my understanding, that's basically what he did - replace the long tedious name (fully spelled out) by a more snappy symbol signifying the same.
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#6Does the article (well, the video) actually demonstrate the new sign for deoxyribonucleotide or DNA or so? I didn't catch it (not that I understand sign language).
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#7This is a problem in just about every language that isn't English. Since the language of science is English, either you borrow the English word (which interestingly is likely borrowed from Latin) or you know a local word that.
But at some stage your local vocabulary runs out, and you wonder whether you should just use English for everything in that domain to make it consistent.
I've run into this problem with a load of languages, I just don't know the right word for things like DNA or vector calculus, or it sounds wrong.
Re: What's Deoxyribonucleotide in Sign Language?
#8This is a problem in just about every language that isn't English. Since the language of science is English, either you borrow the English word (which interestingly is likely borrowed from Latin) or you know a local word that. But at some stage your local vocabulary runs out, and you wonder whether you should just use English for everything in that domain to make it consistent. I've run into this problem with a load…
How do you "borrow" spoken words into sign language? You can't, really -- which is why he has to invent hand gestures.
Re: What's Deoxyribonucleotide in Sign Language?
#9This is a problem in just about every language that isn't English. Since the language of science is English, either you borrow the English word (which interestingly is likely borrowed from Latin) or you know a local word that. But at some stage your local vocabulary runs out, and you wonder whether you should just use English for everything in that domain to make it consistent. I've run into this problem with a load…
How do you "borrow" spoken words into sign language? You can't, really -- which is why he has to invent hand gestures.
I suppose the equivalent is (what I now know is called) finger spelling: an unnatural 'sounding' word that breaks the flow, but it's [spelling is] taken from a language where it already exists.
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#10Does the article (well, the video) actually demonstrate the new sign for deoxyribonucleotide or DNA or so? I didn't catch it (not that I understand sign language).
"Stem Cell" at 1:55 in the video