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Stefan Woehrmann2 Date: Sun Mar 25, 2001 11:31 pm Subject: Re: German name sign for Ilker... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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thank You very much for your message- ... You wrote ... " So if you could post questions specifically about writing YOUR language...your German signs...that would be much more interesting and more useful for your students too. And it will help the SW List members. Some have complained that there is too much ASL, and not enough of other signed languages, posted on the List." So I, for one, am very interested in German signs. hmmm - pardon ?? I guess you are interested in any MovementWriting - ha ! That is the big point about SW - that it isn't tied to any culture, language, country ... And - that is a wonderfull aspect too - it isn ±² tied to any time - It might well be a very interesting aspect to compare the developmental stages - and who knows better than you - what has happened in the past. Looking at any written SW-symbol I ask myself - Can I read it - do I know how to move my arms, fingers, head, body -- and I don ±² care about the source (which SL this movement descrition has been taken from.) So the last exchange with Tini and Henk about some signs in their poem is not a matter of ASL or any other SL in the world but simply a kind of analyzing a movement description: Therefore from my point of view it is not a question of who wrote the symbol or when did he/she wrote the symbol but the chance to become a skilled and keen SW-reader ! ha ;-) I ±> far away from criticizing ASL -SW spelling. And I really hope that you don ±² experience this kind of discussion as kind of faultfinding. If anybody feels disappointed about too much ASL - well - we will have to inform that SW isn ±² tied to any language. WE all - at least I do - are very eager to learn what you the inventor of this wonderfull tool has already understood - there should be the chance within this system to describe even complicated movements - if we are in need of that ! Why not start with a name sign of one of your students which I saw on your web site: "Ich hei FÞ Ilker" Please post both the photo of Ilker and the writing of his name sign in SW, to the SW List...I am interested in analyzing that sign....it could literally create a new chapter in the Lessons in SignWriting textbook ;-)) -- Wow that sounds mysterious ? Ilker - hm - am I wrong ( ha !!) to write his name sign the way I did ? Will this end up with a big horidoooo in the classroom if all of us will understand that my writing has been misunderstood for almost 6 months now ? (Ha that ±± the way it is .- I write a sign and believe that I did nothing else but correct movement description - and lateron the "uninformed reader" can open my eyes !! Thanks for that !! Let' s try it - I'm very interested to read your comment ! All the very best to you and Happy Birthday to your mother Stefan ;-) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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