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Stuart Thiessen Date: Fri Jun 25, 1999 7:15 pm Subject: Re: Deaf Missions | |
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> > I know about these people and I have seen one of their first videos, it was > signed by Lou Fant, a name familiar to some of you here. They are very > good, they have a team system with Bible scholars translating from the > ORIGINAL Hebrew and Greek texts; they're Lutheran I think, if memory hasn't > failed me, but the work is totally nonsectarian Christian. They've even had > Jewish translators working on some of the Hebrew-to-ASL translations. I > would recommend them unhesitatingly for their accuracy and level of > competence. > Most (if not all) of the people on staff at Deaf Missions are associated with the Christian church. However, the translation effort does seem to be a nonsectarian Christian effort. I have seen some errors in their translation from time to time, but over all, they seem to be doing a good job. I did talk with them one time about SignWriting and they were not very receptive to the idea. They felt it was too complicated, etc, etc. But that was probably 5 years ago when I talked about it. I haven't brought it up since because I felt it would be better to see how SignWriting becomes more accepted and then they may listen. Perhaps now is a good time to ask about it again. Stuart Thiessen |
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