Talk:Lou Fant

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Two things to possibly add

Wonderful to see this page being added. Clearly Fant is notable enough to be included in Wikipedia. I'm doing this from memory, so I'm not sure the following is correct, so this should be checked out. Don't have time to do it myself now, but I want to get this down while I'm thinking of it.

He was involved in some way with Klima and Bellugi's research in the 1970s, wasn't he? I seem to remember that he is referred to in The Signs of Language.
I believe he may also have been involved in early days with the translation of the Bible into ASL by Deaf Missions in Council Bluffs IA.

I hope someone can follow up on this, or maybe someday I'll be able to. AlbertBickford (talk) 13:24, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Interestingly, even though his first language was ASL, he was involved in the development of one or more of the pidgen "signed English" systems. I wouldn't know where to begin to find a source, but this is a tidbit I found (in a printed source of some type) many years before the internet was widely used. Does anyone have any information? 75.177.156.78 (talk) 21:48, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I was kind of stunned to not find a page for him here, which is why I created the original version. I view it as still just a stub, and deserving of a lot more detail, but it's also strange to see how little I could find about him on the web, given what an outsize contribution he made to sign language and Deaf Culture. I didn't know about the Klima & Bellugi connection, but I checked my copy, and he has a few citations in the index. I'll look them up, and if there's something that merits inclusion, I'll add it. If you have references that may mention him, please do likewise. Mathglot (talk) 08:06, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So, I added one sentence about sign language poetry from Klima & Bellugi, p. 335. There are other references to him in the book on pp. 356, 360, 62-3, 67, 369-70. Also added an Infobox, and a "Personal Life" section, referencing the Fant Genealogy book. This leaves some stuff appearing in two places, and the structure could use some re-org or rework now. Mathglot (talk) 10:11, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes, I'm glad to see this article too. I was lucky enough to not only meet him but learn from him in a summer program in ASL studies at UCSD, way back in my grad school days.

@AlbertBickford: Yes, that course was, I think, run by Ed Klima & Ursula Bellugi. Certainly they were involved in it, and it was (pauses to think), yes, in the seventies. --Thnidu (talk) 06:33, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

CODA in lede?

I just added "Natively bilingual in ASL and English" to the lede section. Even though his hearing-ness is mentioned near the top of §Biography, I thought it was important enough to put in the top, but I couldn't figure out a way to make it fit comfortably with what's already there. If anyone can, please do it. To discuss this with me, please {{Ping}} me. --Thnidu (talk) 00:23, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Thnidu:: I think what you did handles it nicely. AlbertBickford (talk) 04:25, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@AlbertBickford: :-) Thanks. --Thnidu (talk) 06:24, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]