Each ASL module contains eight or more carefully balanced, historically based scenarios -- but players can also design their own using the 40 + geomorphic SL / ASL mapboards, numerous terrain overlays, copious historical notes, and thousands of counters depicting virtually every vehicle, gun and troop type in action during the war by every major and minor combatant nation.

ASL contains six clusters of processes, three on the operational level, one on the tactical level and two on the strategic level.

ASL has many regional and subcultural varieties and accents.

American Sign Language ( ASL ) is similar to many other sign languages in that it has no grammatical tense but many verbal aspects produced by modifying the base verb sign.

A recent small-scale study puts fingerspelled words in Auslan conversations at about 10 % of all lexical items, roughly equal to ASL and higher than many other sign languages, such as New Zealand Sign Language.

Following the lead of companies like Avalon, Tannoy and Millbank Electronics etc., in the 1980s many other companies such as ASL, Application Solutions ( Safety and Security ) Ltd began producing voice-evacuation systems.

Additional variations on ASL include Deluxe ASL ( DASL ), which was a short-lived experiment in fusing miniature wargaming with ASL ; Historical ASL ( HASL ), which used historically accurate maps, usually in a campaign setting where the outcome of one scenario affected the setup of following scenarios ; Solitaire ASL ( SASL ) with many rules changes for fog of war and command to enhance solitaire play ; and the ASL Starter Kits ( ASLSK ), a series of stand-alone introductory kits.

So while ASL was intended to replace SL, there was a certain ambiguity for many years about the status of SL's replacement ; the original game was still necessary as a steppingstone to learning ASL, and a source for needed mapboards.

Multi-Man Publishing made many changes to the new system ; a decision not to reprint the earlier Squad Leader games resulted in reorganization and 2nd editions of many ASL core modules in order to include boards from the earlier games, necessary for play of the printed scenarios in those core modules.

In the research involving Washoe, all researchers returned lists of signs Washoe used, with the exception of the one deaf native ASL user who reported no signs but many gestures.

Ironically, while USFA and FIFA " won " the wars and established their pre-eminence over the ASL, the spectacle of a U. S. athletic association conspiring with a European organization to undermine a U. S. athletic league alienated many U. S. sports fans by creating an image of soccer as a sport controlled by foreigners.

For more information, many articles, best practises and information are available at the website of the ASL BiSL Foundation.

For example, there are more than six signs for birthday in ASL, just as in English one can say couch and sofa, or soda and pop, to mean the same thing.

Bolivian Sign Language, for example, is essentially ASL, apart from changes in initialized signs to make them match the spelling of Spanish.

Moroccan Sign Language was developed by the American Peace Corps on a base of ASL along with incorporating local signs.

However, there is no one-to-one correspondence between words in ASL and English, and the inflectional modulation of ASL signs — a dominant part of the grammar — is lost.

" However, parents can learn to recognize their baby's approximations of adult ASL signs, just as they will later learn to recognize their approximations of oral language, so teaching an infant ASL is also possible.

Many parents today purchase “ Baby Signs ” DVDs and books which incorporate ASL signs for infant and toddler communication.

By comparison, ASL and BANZSL have only 31 % signs identical, or 44 % cognate.

They have even directly taught ASL signs to their children ( Loulis ) without human help or intervention.

At the time of observation, Washoe showed no signs of having learned the sign, but on a later occasion she reacted to the sight of a toothbrush by spontaneously producing the correct sign, thereby showing that she had in fact previously learned the ASL sign.

Auslan has also been influenced by Irish Sign Language ( ISL ) and more recently has borrowed signs from American Sign Language ( ASL ).

In more recent times Auslan has seen a significant amount of lexical borrowing from American Sign Language ( ASL ), especially in signs for technical terms.

Some of these arose from the signed English educational philosophies of the 1970s and 80s, when a committee looking for signs with direct equivalence to English words found them in ASL and / or in invented English-based signed systems used in North America and introduced them in the classroom.

Australasian Signed English was created in the late 1970s to represent English words and grammar, using mostly Auslan signs together with some additional contrived signs, as well as borrowings from American Sign Language ( ASL ).

They found a " lack of consistency between the utilization of spoken words and the signs that represent them ", and a lack of explanation for the purpose of signed communication and the connection with ASL and the deaf community.

Within Bilingual-Bicultural models, Cued Speech does not borrow or invent signs from ASL, nor does CS attempt to change ASL syntax or grammar.

She used a begging gesture, which was not much different from the ASL signs " give me " and " come.

Native users of ASL make clear distinctions about what handshapes, palm orientations, and places of articulation signs must have to constitute linguistic activity.

ASL grammar was obscured for much of its history by the practice of glossing it rather than transcribing it ( see Writing systems below ), a practice which conveyed little of its grammar apart from word order.

Cyprus Sign Language is reported to be a blend of ASL and Greek Sign Language, which may itself have developed from a combination of ASL and FSL.

ASL has come a long way from its condemned days of banned use to being viewed as a grammatical language, which is the main form of communication in American Deaf culture.

It is found from the sea to the lower mountain ranges, reaching up to 4, 500 m ( 15, 000 ft ) ASL in the hottest tropical parts of its range but only to about 1, 750 meters ( 5, 700 ft ) in the subtropical climate of the Himalayan foothills

Although the United Kingdom and the United States share English as the predominant oral language, British Sign Language is quite distinct from American Sign Language ( ASL ).

BSL is also distinct from Irish Sign Language ( ISL ) ( ISG in the ISO system ) which is more closely related to French Sign Language ( LSF ) and ASL.

Like in vocal languages, developmental trends in ASL shy away from iconicity in favor of arbitrariness.

The terrain of Seneca County is nearly level, gently sloping from about 290 meters ASL in the southeast to about 210 m ASL at the edge of the erstwhile Great Black Swamp in the northwest.

Lynn Mountain reaches ASL at the summit ( 36. 350 ° N, 82. 191 ° W ) and is located directly across the U. S. Highway 19 E from the downtown Elizabethton business district.

On July 23rd, Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767-233 jet, ran out of fuel at an altitude of ASL, about halfway through its flight from Montreal to Edmonton via Ottawa.

These plants are found from Mexico to southern Brazil, but mostly in the higher regions ( 2, 500-4, 000 m ASL ) of the Andes of Ecuador and Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.

Fort Lauderdale also had a history of teams from the NASL, ASL, and USL First Division.

After Avalon Hill was sold to Hasbro in 1999, MMP negotiated to license ASL from Hasbro.

Stokoe also questions assertions that the language has emerged entirely without outside influence, from ( for example ), Spanish or ASL.

In winter, they prefer more open woodland, or similar habitat with a loose growth of trees, such as forest edges, parks, gardens and plantations, ranging from sea level into the hills, e. g. up to 5, 000 ft ( 1, 500 m ) ASL in Costa Rica.

He also mentions in " The Lip Reader " that he has or had a deaf cousin, from whom he learned fluent American Sign Language ( but when Kramer attempts to communicate in ASL, he speaks complete gibberish and he cannot correctly translate the ASL he sees others using ).