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Bill Reese Date: Fri Nov 12, 1999 12:28 am Subject: Re: SW in the future | ||||||||
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Valerie, I'm deaf. :-) Just not born deaf. I'm late deafened. I have an interest in sign (ASL) and I use it. I wasn't complaining about preferring Sign Writing over English or vice versa. I was just saying that all languages can't be accommodated at the same time for any one thing. So I'm wondering how we expect to use SignWriting. I believe that an expectation of how it will be used is a driving force in the development of the language. Expectations and visions change as time goes on and I would expect the same to happen to our expectations and visions of SignWriting. Thank you for posting the vision by Kevin Clark. That was *exactly* what I was looking for. :-) It'll be interesting to see how the generation of kids learning SignWriting now adapt it. Will they develope short forms? Abbreviations? Stylized forms? It's all rather exciting. Bill Reese Valerie Sutton wrote: > So there is no reason why we can't find new solutions to using written > SignWriting in technology, so that hearing people like yourself will not > feel bothered by it, but Deaf people can choose what they want to use. > After all, no hearing person can grasp how it must feel to be > born-deaf...so giving the Deaf options is only fair...and there are a lot > of innovative people in the world who can find solutions... > > Val ;-) > > Val ;-) | ||||||||
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