16-Gesture selection

16 - What happens if I cannot find a certain word in the dictionary of gestures?

We have only 600 gestures at our disposal (which are not few), with which we have a dictionary of 2,400 entries (ie, for each gesture we have about four meanings). In the same poem, it is very rare that two gestures coincide with different meanings, but it could happen. In that case, we should try to replace one of the gestures with one that has a similar meaning, or eliminate the one that is less necessary for the poem.'s intention.

More often will be that you do not find the word you look for. In this case, we can do any of these things (if possible, in this same order, as we will be increasingly forcing the process):

-Find a synonym

-Find a word that has some relation to the desired idea

-Verify if this idea is essential. If it is not, change it to one of the other words we have removed previously.

-With your hands, make a gesture in the air, which in your view, reflects somehow the idea that we need to incorporate. In the on-line dictionary, to the right, we have the option YoGoTe-English. We search through the gestures that are similar to the one we have done, and place it on the idea in the poem.

The result of this work is not a translation of the poem, but an illustration of its intention (in a school environment), and in the final web the students from other countries will be provided with the original text and an English translation, in both cases accompanied by the same symbols, so whatever the chosen symbol, they could identify its meaning from the translation.