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From:
Valerie Sutton Date: Sat Nov 24, 2001 6:41 pm Subject: How much SW detail to write? | ||||||||
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SignWriting List November 24, 2001 Dear SW List... Back on November 8th, Antonio Carlos posted these questions, which I would like to discuss in my next message.... Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa wrote: > I ask those questions because I've noticed that the deaf people around >me tend to be "idiossyncratic" in their way of writing. That is, the same >signs are written in different ways by different people, the main difference >being in the amount of the details. > > This has a consequence I've also noticed: usually, they feel insecure >to read a text whenever the person that wrote the text is not at hand, >to help solving doubts about what exactly was written. And the problems >are usually about the "implicit" parts of the signs, not mistakes that >can be easily recognized. > > There seems to be lacking a common background that would enable >the reader to "fill in the blanks". Is that due to the fact that they >are "new" to SignWriting? That they are very "few" and can't interact >with others outside the hours they meet at the university? Or is that >due to the preference for "simplified" writings that I may have >induced in them :-) ? > > Does anyone working with larger groups noticed a different situation? >Does anyone know of anybody using written sign languages outside the >"formal" context in which (s)he has learnt (or is being taught) how to >read and write? Does that person writes "detailed" or "simplified"? > > All the best, > > Antônio Carlos | ||||||||
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