I agree that numbers would be more difficult to do that this fingerspelling feature, which is why it hasn't been done. But it wouldn't be impossible if it were something that people really REALLY need like we did for the Wikipedia articles that were being written. 

As far as "JOB" goes, that would be a lexicaliztation that I mentioned in my previous message. I don't expect this feature to handle that for two reasons. First is that the lexicaliztation process is never consistent throughout. It is hard to predict how various fingerspellings will be lexicalized. The second is that there are times you truly want to have the fingerspelled form rather than the lexicalized form. Take the name Job for example. Job is never lexicalized because the lexicalized form of #JOB means specifically an occupation where Job is a person's name. ASL treats them as two separate words just like English does (in speech). 

Adam

On Oct 7, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Charles Butler wrote:

Numbers will also be a challenge as the actual correct way to spell something like 1989 has the eight hand flipping upward. There will be glitches in the program as bugs and some fingerspelling idiosyncracies are sorted out. I know that things like "Job" actually reduce to JB so it's going to take a while for styles to develop. 
 
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technical -- I thought this was how 2 z's were finger spelled. 
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On Oct 7, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Valerie Sutton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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October 7, 2013

HOW TO USE FINGERSPELLER continued…

3. Type in the spoken language word, and click Create. The word in fingerspelling appears.

4. Then click on the Save Sign button to save the fingerspelling as a sign in the dictionary -


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