Friday, February 21, 2014

"Hits, link, temperature, all around, pressure, wet, wind, rain."

Come on, America. Look, every other country does the word "climate" better than you.


Look at Turkey (Turkey's flag). That is the way to say, "Lordy, it's warm" + "change" = climate

Then for "climate change" US fingerspells the word "climate" + signs the word "change"

Overlap there between countries, and crazy wild overlap with "change." They're making it up.

Weather is a word that is all over the place in the US. An important word, I think, and I do it the way I see here on this site, two "W"s touching and tapping, distinct because thumb and pinkie are touching on both hands for a 4-point touch with 2 W's sticking up alternating positions, other versions in five good online dictionaries have W's all over the place, W's facing and shaking like it's cold, two W's facing each other and shaking down as if personifying weather, both full hands spread shaking straight downward as if saying, "all that in front of us." Sometimes the word is conflated with "wind" and even sometimes with "war" also with their own versions. Those word clouds blend into each other confusingly and with idiosyncratic style making context everything.

This vexes me.

In one of the best earliest dictionaries, one that I check for everything, for the word "climate" the word "weather" is substituted and fingerspelled instead. Except the woman leaves out the "th" in weather, she spells "weaer" and the viewer is expected to know she means weather. This utterly defeats my phonetic method of receiving and forces me to resort to "sort this puzzle and discover the missing pieces" mode of receiving. I made the video large, moved the slider slowly and see clearly "t" and "h" are not formed, the thumb is there as if thinking about making a "t" and two fingers available right there for an "h" but not done, and lazily omitted and then so is the "th" sound omitted, needed but missing for the word "weather" to form in my mind without a delay of reconstructing puzzling missing phonemes.

2 comments:

chickelit said...

Except the woman leaves out the "th" in weather, she spells "weaer" and the viewer is expected to know she means weather.

The Dutch word for "the weather" is het Weer. Centuries ago, it was spelled het weder* and then het we'er until they finally dropped the elision.
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* cf. German das Wetter

deborah said...

Hey, that could be hula :)