A bit like Sign Language, but in smaller font...-- RayfordSteele, Jul 25 2011 The Drasnian secret language http://davideddings...ia.com/wiki/DrasniaIn 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_warNot exactly a language, but twiddling and circling might be strategies... [csea, Jul 27 2011] very nice.-- po, Jul 25 2011 What'd you say? Hahahaha!+-- blissmiss, Jul 25 2011 Do you twiddle your thumb at us, sir?-- theleopard, Jul 26 2011 you know- thumbs up! [+]-- xandram, Jul 26 2011 small, but perfectly formed [+]-- pertinax, Jul 26 2011 [brevity]-- theleopard, Jul 26 2011 shorthand!-- po, Jul 26 2011 Reminds me of the customs of the Adem in the fantasy novel "Wise Man's Fear" by Patrick Rothfuss.-- jutta, Jul 26 2011 Shouldn't it really be called "thumb circling"? Twiddling and circling are not the same.-- blissmiss, Jul 26 2011 People fluent in sign langauge actually 'whisper' and 'shout,' BION.-- Alterother, Jul 26 2011 One thumbs down. Apparently the autoboner is Ebert.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 27 2011 Reminds me of Count and Lady Fenris.-- mouseposture, Jul 27 2011 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..
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..-- not_morrison_rm, Jul 27 2011 Dammit, [!mrn] your anno needed to have either 5 or 6 words.-- mouseposture, Jul 27 2011 1, 2, 3, 4 I declare a thumb war! [link]-- csea, Jul 27 2011 where's [wax] when you need him?-- po, Jul 27 2011 // Dammit, [!mrn] your anno needed to have either 5 or 6 words.//
It does, but in multiples of 5 and 6, it was 60 words, so 5 x 6 twice. No, it wasn't deliberate.-- not_morrison_rm, Jul 27 2011 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.-- Vernon, Jul 27 2011 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.-- nineteenthly, Jul 27 2011 random, halfbakery