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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Mar 9, 2000 3:16 pm Subject: Re: Transcribing Japanese Sign Language | ||||||||||||||||
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On 3/6/00, Mark Penner wrote: >Yes. And if someone knew how to do this, wouldn't it be great to have a >video with "closed captioning" in SignWriting. That seems like a >tremendously effective teaching tool--instant feedback in a natural signing >context. But already I have more ideas than we have time . . . alas. -------------------------------- SignWriting List March 9, 2000 Actually, Mark, placing captions on the video would be a bad idea, when it comes to transcribing video in SignWriting. So thank goodness you do not have captioned videos! Why is it a bad idea? As you know, SignWriting was not developed with a prior knowledge of any signed language - it was developed to record any body movement and it is not dependent on meaning... "Knowing the meaning of what is being said" can actually hurt the transcription process sometimes, because students get so caught up with what it means, they forget to write what they see. And the purpose of this transcription excercise is to write a signed language no one knows, to learn the SignWriting symbols in a generic fashion. Plus the captions could get in the way of viewing the movement...It will distract the eye from seeing "movement for movement's sake"... So your videos sound perfect and I hope a few people will sign on to the project - Val ;-) ------------------------------------ Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archive https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l/ Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA | ||||||||||||||||
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