New tag? Words formed by the body

I am unsure if it already exist.

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No existing tags as far as I can see.

body_letter
human_letter
letter_pose
alphabet_pose
?

body_language

...I'll go sit in the corner

piespy said:
body_language

...I'll go sit in the corner

I, for one, approve.

(It's language-agnostic)

piespy said:
body_language

...I'll go sit in the corner

It's clever, and not well-used at the moment, but I'd somehow prefer to reserve it for such a time that we decide general non-verbal communication deserves its own tag rather than super-specifying it to something the general phrase doesn't mean.

I think I'd prefer to go with body_letter, or letter_pose. Kana are technically "morae" rather than "letters", but I've heard "letter" used referring to them, and it's more than obvious what's meant.

Shinjidude said:
Kana are technically "morae" rather than "letters"

Actually, a mora is a phonetic unit; kana are syllabograms, since they come from a syllabary.

But yeah, I agree that the distinction is a little too pedantic to trouble ourselves with jumping through hoops to make things technically correct, so +1 letter_pose (since body_letter sort of implies the whole body, and I can imagine something like this with just arm or hand signs).

Edit: Or body_text is good. (text_pose?)

body_text

Shinjidude said:
...I'd somehow prefer to reserve it for such a time that we decide general non-verbal communication deserves its own tag...

Then why don't we do it and get it over with already?

glasnost said:
Or body_text is good.

I don't know, intuitively I'd understand that to refer to text written on the body. So, +1 letter_pose. That's also good for single letters, whereas text_pose would seem to imply multiple words.

I like alphabet_pose and letter_pose... though the wording feels odd.

letter_pose sounds descriptive and unambiguous to me, so that's my choice.