Monthly Archives: March 2008

Multi-channel signs in BSL

Posted on March 26, 2008 by gareth

One interesting aspect of BSL grammar is multi-channel signs; these are special signs where both manual (i.e. using your hands) and non-manual (e.g. facial expressions, lip patterns etc) actions are combined to form a single sign. In my BSL course … Continue reading →

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BSL word ordering

Posted on March 21, 2008 by gareth

English version One of the things that people struggle to understand when learning BSL is how the word ordering differs from English. For example, consider the sentence ‘Why was the black cat climbing the tree in your garden yesterday?’. This … Continue reading →

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Learning sign language

Posted on March 15, 2008 by gareth

[Note: I was going to try and translate this post into BSL for the benefit of my readers who sign (there's at least one!) but I have a feeling this post would never appear as I keep putting it off! … Continue reading →

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SWT browser widgets and local plugin files

Posted on March 11, 2008 by gareth

Ok, getting very technical from my normal postings but I found this really difficult to track down so thought it was worth posting somewhere. I’ve creating an application inside the Eclipse framework and wanted to write some HTML and display … Continue reading →

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Tweetjects and Bluetooth

Posted on March 7, 2008 by gareth

Andy Stanford-Clark recently got a few people together to talk about blogjects and tweetjects after getting his house to tweet about the various goings-on there. That inspired me to think about what I could do with Twitter and remembered a … Continue reading →

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