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  2. American manual alphabet - Wikipedia

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    A double letter within a word is signed in different ways, through a bounce of the hand, a slide of the hand, or repeating the sign of a letter. [4] Letters are signed at a constant speed; a pause functions as a word divider. The first letter may be held for the length of a letter extra as a cue that the signer is about to start fingerspelling.

  3. Dice notation - Wikipedia

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    7th Sea and Legend of the Five Rings use only 10-sided dice, so it omits the number of sides, using notation of the form , meaning "roll eight ten-sided dice, keep the highest six, and sum them."Although using a roll and keep system, Cortex Plus games all use roll all the dice of different sizes and keep two (normally the two best), although a ...

  4. Dice - Wikipedia

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    A very common notation, considered a standard, expresses a dice roll as nds or nDs, where n is the number of dice rolled and s is the number of sides on each die; if only one die is rolled, n is normally not shown. For example, d4 denotes one four-sided die; 6d8 means the player should roll six eight-sided dice and sum the results.

  5. Fingerspelling - Wikipedia

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    Yoel (2009) demonstrated that American Sign Language is influencing the lexicon and grammar of Maritime Sign Language in various ways, including the fact that the original BANZSL two-handed manual alphabet is no longer used in the Maritimes [10]: 8, 9, 75, 142 and has been replaced by the one-handed American manual alphabet, which has been ...

  6. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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    The grammar of American Sign Language (ASL) has rules just like any other sign language or spoken language. ASL grammar studies date back to William Stokoe in the 1960s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This sign language consists of parameters that determine many other grammar rules.

  7. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language [5] that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features . [ 6 ]

  8. 'Barbie' now has an ASL version and the reactions are beautiful

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    The hit film became available Dec. 15 to stream on Max with an additional feature: an American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. According to a Dec. 5 press release from Warner Bros. Pictures, ...

  9. American Sign Language phonology - Wikipedia

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    Since these conditions apply in more and more signed languages as cross-linguistic research increases, it may not apply to only ASL phonotactics. Six types of signs have been suggested: one-handed signs made without contact, one-handed signs made with contact (excluding on the other hand), symmetric two-handed signs (i.e. signs in which both ...