New technology always introduces linguistic challenge . In the early days of moviemaking , it was n’t clear what these young entertainments should be call . Kinesigraphs ( after photograph ) ? Films ? Moving picture ? Motion pictures ? Picture shows ? Movies ? It is possible to imagine a raw conception in different manner . Do you name it for the matter that distinguishes it from what came before ? ( It ’s a motion-picture show — but it moves ! ) Or for the culture medium it ’s printed on ? ( Film , itself an annexe of the “ thin layer ” trope . ) It will take some clock time for people to converge on a favorite , sometimes a few generations .
The process is no unlike for the neology of fresh terms in ASL . When a new theme come into the acculturation , signers can take up from English ( through finger spelling ) , change an existing sign , or total up with something new through a reimagining of the concept . For case , here are two different possible mansion for photobomb :
The one on the left hand conceptualizes it from the point of view of the pic - taker — someone pops into the picture I am taking . The one on the right field conceptualizes it from the point of purview of the person having their picture taken — someone thrust ahead in while I ’m being photographed .
This gif come up from a fib atHopes&Fearsthat need a pair of Deaf signers , DouglasRidloff , an ASL artist , performer , and pedagog , and one of his students , 12 - year - old Tully Stelzer , to give their signs for new terms .
For the termonesie , Ridloff give the signaling form “ pajamas , ” while Stelzer uses the conception of put something over the body in one large piece .
If these construct stick around long enough in the culture for the residential area to discuss them oft , eventually the community will take root on a stable sign . Already Ridloff describe that people in the Deaf community do n’t like his “ photobomb ” sign because they find it awkward . If we are still mouth about photobombs a propagation from now , only then will we see what the right dictionary sign turns out to be . It may well turn out to be Stelzer ’s . In any terminology , change tends to be drive by the younger multiplication . Who says “ moving picture ” any more ?
See signs for “ emoji , ” “ food for thought coma , ” “ selfie , ” and others , and interpret a Q&A with Ridloff and Tully about their signs atHopes&Fears .
