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Don & Theresa G Date: Fri Nov 12, 1999 4:46 pm Subject: A question... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Now admittedly, I haven't taken the time to learn, write or read SW, but I looked at the GIFs for "DOG", and was pretty much able to figure out the sign from seeing it. Of course, knowing what the word would be helped ;-) (Just FYI, I think using GIFs is a good way of sending the SW through email...makes it accessible for those of us who have not downloaded the SW software). I was surprised at being able to figure out the sign as written... it was semi-iconic of the sign, but not entirely so, enough to actually give me some "work" in figuring out what the elements were. So, this leads me to my question.... how much time does it actually take to WRITE a SignWriting character/word/sign? Because there is an element of drawing in it, I wonder if it takes time to draw those things. I'm thinking in comparison to Chinese, the symbols are seemingly complex, but actually only take a few brush strokes to complete one character. But for SW, it seems it would take a lot more than a few strokes of a pen to write a SW character. If it takes significantly more time to complete a SW character than it would for Chinese or an English word, then it would seem to me that it would still not be an efficient way for written communication, or not as efficient as "standard" writing systems, anyway. --Don Grushkin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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