Re: Problems with installing the GUI for figlet
From Michael Hamm <msh...@is7.nyu.edu>
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· 10 Jan 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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Alex Webb (fle...@nemesis.com.au) wrote, in part: > Also - regarding the ASL for Love, the right hand with the 2nd and 3rd fingers > down, that was mentioned and displayed here. In .au and I dare say in other > countries the same 'hand gesture' is used at rock and roll concerts, and AFAIK > is supposed to mean 'Satan' or 'YOUREALLYROCCCKKK!' or words to that effect. Be that as it may, and be the response of a fellow Internetter as it may (that it is an ancient symbol), ASL took it from neither of these sources. Rather, it is simply a combination of the ASL Manual Alphabet letters I, L, and Y (the initial letters of "I love you"). I'd assume that the rockers stole it from one fo the other two sources -- ASL or the ancients. Btw, Auslan (Australian Sign Language) has a manual alphabet completely different from ASL's (though Auslan's is similar to BSL's -- British Sign Language -- I've learned), so don't try to verify what I'm saying by asking your local deaf person how to fingerspell ILY. :) Hth. ObAsc: V (a tornado, natch) Michael Hamm BA, Math, Jan. '01 msh...@nyu.edu http://pages.nyu.edu/~msh210/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,4a0478d65bd2ad3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: msh...@is7.nyu.edu (Michael Hamm) Subject: Re: Problems with installing the GUI for figlet Date: 1999/01/10 Message-ID: <77bbhc$eju$1...@news.nyu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 431043398 References: <369...@nemesis.com.au> X-Complaints-To: use...@news.nyu.edu X-Trace: news.nyu.edu 916009324 14974 msh210 128.122.253.154 Organization: New York University Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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