Sign Language
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Like English in the UK, the British Sign Language has developed its own dialects
Limited contact between the first British Sign Language communities created dialects that are still in use today.
Kearsy Cormier, The Conversation & Adam Schembri, The Conversation
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Not Arial or Times New Roman, Indian streets are ruled by charming homegrown fonts
Typeface and graphic designer Pooja Saxena identifies interesting fonts on Indian streets and records them on Instagram.
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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Centre launches first Indian Sign Language Dictionary with 3,000 words in Hindi, English
Union minister Thawarchand Gehlot said the lexicon will help people with hearing and speech impairments to overcome communication barriers.
Scroll Staff
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Congress to decide Indian cricket team based on religion, claims PM Modi
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Portraits of India’s people by a Flemmish artist who lived on the margins of 18th-century Calcutta
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Memoir: A journalist remembers the 1960s and how the Naxal movement was portrayed in books and films
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Trademark tangle: Will the Indian Medical Association be able to adopt a new ‘red cross’ logo?
The Geneva Convention prevents the use of any symbol similar to the Red Cross emblem of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Prashant Reddy
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Emojis have hit Hollywood – and thriller or rom-com, they’ll take it by storm
The ubiquitous smileys, winks and love hearts are about to make it out of the smart phones in our pockets and on to the silver screen.
Vyvyan Evans, The Conversation