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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).

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chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

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- tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  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.
  
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tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

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