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Valerie Sutton Date: Sat Jun 17, 2000 2:31 pm Subject: Re: Irish Blessing "peace" | |
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At 12:39 PM +0200 6/17/00, Stefan Woehrmann wrote: >Itīs just this - to learn to understand the writing . Do read the signs >instead of signing what is based on additional background -Knowledge. That >makes our Japanese bible- project to important to me. Joe Martin wrote >this wonderfull story about the two people who tried to understand a Russian >text -- ;-) reading but not knowing, listening and understanding but unable >to read - Same experiments would be great in our field! SignWriting List June 17, 2000 Yes. But teaching people to understand Russian, and teaching the Russian alphabet are two different things. Teaching English, and teaching the International Phonetic Alphabet, are two different things. Teaching the German alphabet with umlauts etc, and teaching what German words mean, are two different things. Teaching people American Sign Language, and teaching them SignWriting, are two different things. SignWriting does not teach language. It is a way to read and write movement. So at least, when you receive a message from me, just know that I am not teaching ASL or any signed language... I am just teaching the equivalent to the International Phonetic Alphabet, but for writing movement instead. -- Val ;-) ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org To Post A Message To The SW List: SignWriting List Archives: https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l |
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