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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Jul 1, 1998 7:41 am Subject: Reading Foreign Signed Languages | |
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July 1st, 1998 A thought... When looking at our new special feature in Nicarguan Sign Language, do not assume you cannot read it, just because you do not know Nicaraguan Sign Language. If you know the SignWriting symbols, you will be able to read the movements quite well, and when you compare those movements to the English sentence below, you may find that you can get "a feel" for their grammar too, which is quite different than ASL's grammar. I am sharing this with you to show you the enormous flexibility and potential of SignWriting, to bring us all closer together. If you know SignWriting, it is amazing how much you can pick up, even when reading foreign signs. This is equivalent to the fact that even though different signed languages are distinct different languages, when two skilled signers from two different countries get together, they can oftentimes understand each other, at a certain basic level. And even though I cannot understand Nicaraguan Sign Language 100% from reading the document, at least at a basic level, I did get a "feel" for the language. More later... Valerie Sutton :-) https://www.SignWriting.org Sutton at the DAC Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA (619)456-0098 voice (619)456-0010 tty (619)456-0020 fax |
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