...Oh. So her world doesn't have the same body language. Um...
How do you translate the concept of "yes" and "no"?
He starts drawing a picture- two stick figures next to a cube, one of them pointing at the cube with a speech bubble containing a picture of the cube. The other stick figure is nodding his head up and down.
Halfway through, he realizes the problem- but finishes it anyway. Better to fail to communicate than to give mixed signals. He draws the same picture, but this time the first stick figure's speech bubble has a picture of a pyramid, and the second stick figure's motion lines are horizontal.
The problem, of course, is that if she doesn't understand nodding, she probably doesn't understand speech bubbles. He... draws little mouths on the stick figures, and draws arrows between their mouths and their speech bubbles. Maybe it'll get the idea across?
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Date: 2014-10-29 02:14 am (UTC)How do you translate the concept of "yes" and "no"?
He starts drawing a picture- two stick figures next to a cube, one of them pointing at the cube with a speech bubble containing a picture of the cube. The other stick figure is nodding his head up and down.
Halfway through, he realizes the problem- but finishes it anyway. Better to fail to communicate than to give mixed signals. He draws the same picture, but this time the first stick figure's speech bubble has a picture of a pyramid, and the second stick figure's motion lines are horizontal.
The problem, of course, is that if she doesn't understand nodding, she probably doesn't understand speech bubbles. He... draws little mouths on the stick figures, and draws arrows between their mouths and their speech bubbles. Maybe it'll get the idea across?