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Stefan Woehrmann Date: Wed Aug 23, 2000 1:56 pm Subject: Re: Pledge Alligiance in SW | |
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Hi Val, I´m interested in the original version as well. Can You attach it to a message ? Stefan ;-) >From: Valerie Sutton >Reply-To: SignWriting List >To: SignWriting List >Subject: Re: Pledge Alligiance in SW >Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:56:23 -0700 > >At 9:08 PM -0400 8/21/00, Nancy Cole wrote: >>Kids are so good at imitating, but I want them to >>think for once. I think it would be FANTASTIC to have several versions, >>and >>I could even show my kids once they see one. Thanks for all of your >>help!!! >>YES I just couldn't do it without you!!! >>Nancy > > >SignWriting List >August 22, 2000 > >Hello Everyone, and hello Nancy - > >I have great news...I found the old document of US Pledge of >Allegiance, written in 1981.... > >It was written in SignWriting by hand, by interpreter Nancy Ellen >Woo, who later became Nancy Romero. Nancy is very skilled in >SignWriting, but as a hearing person, she felt she should base the >writing on a Deaf person's signing. Therefore she asked David McKee >to sign it for her. > >The old SignWriting document is in "Full-Body" style - that means >"stick figures". It is also Receptive (the stick figure faces the >reader)....the Expressive writing style did not start until after >1984... > >So for you to read this old document, I think I should transcribe the >basic signs quickly into the way we write today - It may take me a >day or two - Then perhaps you can make it better from there.... > >I also suggest that you continue to write your own versions - David >McKee's version may not be perfect ASL either....so it will only be >one version of many.... I hope! ;-) > >So I will post a GIF and a SGN file to the List as soon as is possible..... > >My best to everyone - >-- > >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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