* Empower deaf people to feel like they have a shared, global language distinct from and on par with spoken languages? (but there are other sign languages besides ASL...)
* Serve people who are sighted, but both deaf and dyslexic? (Would the symbols actually help?)
* Teach people how to use sign language? (same objection as before, plus it just doesn't come across as very informative)
* Something else?
I will say that featural scripts like this are cool in general, though, and also congrats to the parties involved on getting it into Unicode.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 14.4 ms ] thread* Empower deaf people to feel like they have a shared, global language distinct from and on par with spoken languages? (but there are other sign languages besides ASL...)
* Serve people who are sighted, but both deaf and dyslexic? (Would the symbols actually help?)
* Teach people how to use sign language? (same objection as before, plus it just doesn't come across as very informative)
* Something else?
I will say that featural scripts like this are cool in general, though, and also congrats to the parties involved on getting it into Unicode.