Talk:Hamburg Notation System

Page link
Whew! I have changed the link from #1 to #5. --Thnidu (talk) 01:03, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) The HamNoSys English home page is almost nine years out of date ("Letzte Änderung [last update]: 30. Januar 2004").
 * 2) The German version sends the reader to
 * 3) the German page for HamNoSys within Hamburg University's DGS-Korpus (German Sign Language Corpus project) website. There the "English" link goes to
 * 4) the DGS-Korpus English welcome page, whose Hamnosys link leads to
 * 5) the Corpus project's English page.

"sound transcription"

 * The Hamburg Sign Language Notation System, or HamNoSys, is a direct correspondence between symbols and sound transcription system for all sign languages, not only ASL, comparable to the IPA for oral languages.

What on earth is the purpose of describing a sign transcription system as a "sound transcription system"?

WP:WikiBlame found the answer: No purpose at all! Former User:Murilloale used it in, on May 2, 2018, with no justification or explanation. The edit description is simply "m", apparently for "minor edit". I suspect that they are (were) totally ignorant of sign language linguistics. Not surprisingly, their user and user talk pages are both redlinks.

I have rewritten that sentence to remove "sound" and done some other copyediting. However, several odd or awkward structures remain, many copied directly from the cited source, which is an English page of a German site and was apparently written by a non-native user of English. I have not attempted a full copyedit.

The source refers to version 4 of HamNoSys, 1997. I'm not sure that's the latest version.

--Thnidu (talk) 03:19, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

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