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From:  Angus Grieve-Smith
Date:  Sun Jun 6, 1999  2:00 pm
Subject:  Re: NAD Requests SW Videos


On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Valerie Sutton wrote:

> Years ago, back in the late 1970's, when I first started SignWriting,
> the NAD was strongly opposed to writing American Sign Language. They
> didn't believe it could be done, and told me so!

That's a perfect example of human closed-mindedness! "It can't be
done, so you shouldn't do it." If it really can't be done, why bother
opposing it?

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-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
Linguistics Department
University of New Mexico



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