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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Dec 20, 2001 8:55 pm Subject: Question: "Constructed Languages?" | ||||||||||||
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SignWriting List December 20, 2001 Steven Anthony wrote: >>It's seems a lot of folks get into constructed languages i.e. <https://www.loglan.org>www.loglan.org . Yours seem to be ready made in that it is visually based, which is easier to remember since mnemonics teaches it is always easier to remember visually with representative images. Have you ever considered setting up a phoenetic system or one based on bigger chunks of syllables, that (without knowing any specific language) one could verbally convey you signwriting script to another person ? Would you please consider it ? Steven Anthony Hello Steven! Thanks for your question... SignWriting is not a constructed language. In fact, it is not a language at all! Here is an article about this..... IS SIGNWRITING A NEW LANGUAGE? https://www.SignWriting.org/about/questions/questions.html No. SignWriting is not a language. It can be compared to an "alphabet". Alphabets are not languages themselves. They are tools used to record languages that already exist. Signed and spoken languages were not written languages from the beginning. They were "spoken" or "signed" for centuries without a written form. A, B and C have no meaning by themselves. It took time to develop a good way to read and write the sounds of spoken languages using A, B and C. It took centuries before reading and writing spoken languages was taught in schools. In the same way, the SignWriting symbols have no meaning by themselves. SignWriting is a set of visually-designed symbols used to record the movements of any signed language. SignWriting records exactly how people sign, without changing the signed language being recorded. Who knows? Maybe it won't take centuries before reading and writing signs is taught in schools for the Deaf! That may be true partly because of the advent of computers. Computers seem to be "speeding up" the process. -- Val ;-) ___________________________ Valerie Sutton ....visit the... SignWritingSite https://www.SignWriting.org Read & Write Sign Languages SignBankSite https://www.SignBank.org Sign Language Dictionaries DanceWritingSite https://www.DanceWriting.org Read & Write Dance MovementWritingSite https://www.MovementWriting.org Read & Write Movement & Gesture Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA tel: 858-456-0098....fax: 858-456-0020 | ||||||||||||
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