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Valerie Sutton Date: Sun Nov 29, 1998 4:11 pm Subject: Writing Fingerspelling in SW | ||||||||
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November 29, 1998 Thanks for the question about fingerspelling (see below). When Deaf children who are born into Deaf families learn a fingerspelled word at ages one, two, and three...do they know they are fingerspelling English? I bet they feel those fingerspelled words are "signs" don't they? I hope some of the linguists and others on the list will give us their input on this question - Valerie ___________________________ Sat, 28 Nov 1998 Stuart Thiessen wrote: >I was also wondering ... Is there a particular reason why we write >out the fingerspelling for spoken language words instead of putting >those words in standard print? It just seemed to me that if we are >simply fingerspelling an English word (for example), why don't we >just type the word in English letters? Just wondering ... > >I can understand for some ASL signs like #JOB or #EARLY. It's >others I'm wondering about. > >Stuart _______________________________ Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton at the DAC Deaf Action Committee for SW SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ||||||||
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