7 ms·
The blog post references translating between English and Indian Sign Language (ISL). I interpreted that to mean translating between spoken English and ISL, not
by voidingw 2y ago
The blog post references translating between English and Indian Sign Language (ISL). I interpreted that to mean translating between spoken English and ISL, not ASL and ISL.
Regardless, I’m curious how (dis)similar ISL is to ASL.
- matroid 2y agoThat is correct. We want to translate between English and ISL. English, because it is by and large the language of the Web and I think we should try to connect ISL to it rather than Indian Languages. From my understanding, they are quite dissimilar. A person who knows ISL will not understand ASL, for example.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> A person who knows ISL will not understand ASL, for example. That isn't the best example; it would still be true of language pairs that were very similar to each other.