Posted March 05, 2019
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chandra
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Registered: Mar 2017
From Poland
Posted March 05, 2019
What you associate with it is on you ;) but more info can be found here.
Linko64
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Registered: Apr 2012
From Spain
Posted March 05, 2019
Buy a gumshield, good advice for life
scientiae
intexto perplexo
Registered: Jun 2011
From Australia
Posted March 05, 2019
:)
scientiae: How about sign language? Or semaphore? Perhaps smoke signals? I like anatidaephobic gesticulation. 
MemoryDreams: As far as I know, sign language is based on spoken language so tough luck here X)
As for smoke signals, I think something like that was in Arrival (2016). Never watched it though I didn't see your reply so I shall take advantage of it. :)
[!Warning¡] This website can take your attention for hours!
I haven't seen a film released in the last couple of years, so I haven't seen Arrival, though from the advertisements it seems to take some logical steps to modernize accepted tropes. Sign languages do correlate with spoken languages (there is an Australian Sign Language, for example, in addition to localized dialects for both British and the American — which I am learning, because the alphabet is signed with one hand, unlike the others).
What would be interesting (and test your theory) is (verbal) polyglot people who also speak sign language. The number of people who speak English as a second language completely outnumbering the native speakers, so I wonder what, say, a bilingual Balinese & English speaker who signs might do.* (People who speak more than one language tend to mix them when speaking amongst other polyglots, whenever clarity is best served to do so.)
A related conundrum, speaking of sign language, is the ASL symbol for love. (People who like Rock music will be familiar with the symbol, it is like the Hawai'ian "hang loose", but with the index finger as well as the pinkie raised, as seen in the audience of many metal band performances.) This symbol is very rude in Italian (it means, to a male, "I know your girlfriend has cuckolded you", with the implication that the carnal knowledge is personal.) A bit like the "thumbs up" symbol now globally popular because of Facebook, which is an expletive in Brazil (telling the witness to go have intimate relations with themselves).
Anyway, you said you were a philologist, so I assume you have a couple of languages to help.
I had a further addendum to my earlier comment about Cirion's UGC for Shadowrun, too.
I made the comment that I thought CalFree in Chains was a definitive work of the Cyberpunk métarécit.
(Not my favourite genre, since I think the dialectical Postcyberpunk is less cliché, but that's me.)
Assuming technology and the nature of humanity are of interest to you (and who would not be interested in our modern world?) I would recommend this article, too. :)
I am always happy to chat about these themes.
* N.b., for those millennials and American English users reading this and taking notes, that last question was indirect and did not need a mark.
As for smoke signals, I think something like that was in Arrival (2016). Never watched it though
[!Warning¡] This website can take your attention for hours!
I haven't seen a film released in the last couple of years, so I haven't seen Arrival, though from the advertisements it seems to take some logical steps to modernize accepted tropes. Sign languages do correlate with spoken languages (there is an Australian Sign Language, for example, in addition to localized dialects for both British and the American — which I am learning, because the alphabet is signed with one hand, unlike the others).
What would be interesting (and test your theory) is (verbal) polyglot people who also speak sign language. The number of people who speak English as a second language completely outnumbering the native speakers, so I wonder what, say, a bilingual Balinese & English speaker who signs might do.* (People who speak more than one language tend to mix them when speaking amongst other polyglots, whenever clarity is best served to do so.)
A related conundrum, speaking of sign language, is the ASL symbol for love. (People who like Rock music will be familiar with the symbol, it is like the Hawai'ian "hang loose", but with the index finger as well as the pinkie raised, as seen in the audience of many metal band performances.) This symbol is very rude in Italian (it means, to a male, "I know your girlfriend has cuckolded you", with the implication that the carnal knowledge is personal.) A bit like the "thumbs up" symbol now globally popular because of Facebook, which is an expletive in Brazil (telling the witness to go have intimate relations with themselves).
Anyway, you said you were a philologist, so I assume you have a couple of languages to help.
I had a further addendum to my earlier comment about Cirion's UGC for Shadowrun, too.
I made the comment that I thought CalFree in Chains was a definitive work of the Cyberpunk métarécit.
(Not my favourite genre, since I think the dialectical Postcyberpunk is less cliché, but that's me.)
Assuming technology and the nature of humanity are of interest to you (and who would not be interested in our modern world?) I would recommend this article, too. :)
I am always happy to chat about these themes.
* N.b., for those millennials and American English users reading this and taking notes, that last question was indirect and did not need a mark.