2013/4/21 Stephan Stiller <[email protected]> > > sign-writing >> > SignWriting is also difficult to write. > Not necessarily more than those that learn writing Chinese. It appears difficult to those that don't know sign languages. But for the others, yes it requires training, just like those that learn to read and write any oral language of the world (we call this ability "litteracy").
Don't forget the purpose of this script : not just communicate in a written form but also help learning the sign languages themselves. And it's certanily more economic than storing and sending videos, that are also highly dependant on encoding and rendering technologies. But if technologies are available, it will be easy to render them correctly, or to convert it into an animated person showing the actual signs (not more complicated than decoding and rendering a video. The same technogies will also allow converting them (based on dictionaries) to sequences of words representing the oral language (but most probably the encoded sign-writing would be sent along with a transcription of the associated oral language)
