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Valerie Sutton Date: Mon Mar 26, 2001 5:33 pm Subject: Re: German name sign for Ilker... | |
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On 3/26/01, Stefan Woehrmann wrote: >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 >±" tied to any time - SignWriting List March 26, 2001 Hello Stefan! Thank you for your many messages ;-) Although I personally am a movement notator, and when I teach, I am teaching the general "Movement Writing" system, and not any one signed language, it still doesn't mean that I am not interested in seeing some German signs posted on the SignWriting List! It is good for the List members to see that signs from many different countries are written with SignWriting...I know you know that...But we have new List members all the time who are silent, but present ;-) And actually, although Movement Writing is neutral and not "language-specific", SignWriting does become "tied to one Sign Language culture" sometimes, since certain writing norms evolve within cultures. A good example of that is the name sign for your Deaf student Ilker. Although the photo showed one sign, your classroom had apparently started writing another sign, to represent Ilker...so the photo didn't match the writing. It was no longer "Movement Writing"....the writing of his name sign was based on your classroom's culture...so SignWriting does, after awhile, become somewhat culture specific...and that is as it should be. That is true with all spoken languages too. Tini has posted some poetry using American signs, to the SW List for us to read. When we read her documents, we are doing two things...reading Movement Writing, and reading American signs... I noticed recently that you had a version of Goldilocks in German signs? That is so exciting. And I know that there is also a Brazilian Sign Language version of Goldilocks too...and possibly Nicaraguan as well...I am not sure. All of those versions would be of interest to me and to others....not only for Movement Writing, but also enjoying the languages of the respective countries. It would be fun to compare the different signed language versions of Goldilocks someday ;-) -- Val ;-> ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://groups.yahoo.com/group/sw-l/ To post a message to the SW List: |
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