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A bit like Sign Language, but in smaller font...
The Drasnian secret language
http://davideddings...ia.com/wiki/Drasnia
In the Belgariad, the Drasnians have a secret language where entire conversations could be had via innocent handsigns, while talking on unrelated matters [theircompetitor, Jul 26 2011]
Thumb War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb_war
Not exactly a language, but twiddling and circling might be strategies... [csea, Jul 27 2011]
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What'd you say? Hahahaha!+ |
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Do you twiddle your thumb at us, sir? |
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small, but perfectly formed [+] |
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Reminds me of the customs of the Adem in the
fantasy novel "Wise Man's Fear" by Patrick Rothfuss. |
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Shouldn't it really be called "thumb circling"?
Twiddling and circling are not the same. |
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People fluent in sign langauge actually 'whisper' and 'shout,'
BION. |
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One thumbs down. Apparently the autoboner is Ebert. |
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Reminds me of Count and Lady Fenris. |
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I suspect a lot of this kind of thing is going to end up redundant as you will probably be able to get an ee-phone app to translate into plain speech, what with the camera and all.. |
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At the risk of one more book reference, the touch language in Iain M Bank's "The Algebraist" as that can be done under cover.. |
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Dammit, [!mrn] your anno needed to have either 5
or 6 words. |
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1, 2, 3, 4
I declare a thumb war! [link] |
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where's [wax] when you need him? |
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// Dammit, [!mrn] your anno needed to have either 5 or 6 words.// |
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It does, but in multiples of 5 and 6, it was 60 words, so 5 x 6 twice. No, it wasn't deliberate. |
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This should be easy to do. One direction of thumb motion could be defined as equivalent to a "dot" and the other direction could be defined as equivalent to a "dash" and NO motion would be a separator between consecutive duplicate items, and now you are ready to transmit Morse Code. |
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This morning, [Eleventeenthly] was communicating
with me by tapping my thumbs together in a Morse
code pattern on a noisy train, and he hadn't read this
idea. |
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