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Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa Date: Tue Dec 1, 1998 11:22 pm Subject: Re: QUESTIONS REGARDING SIGN WRITING | |
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Dear Alexandra, Some tentative answers to some of your questions: > 5) Won't the rapid pace of technology, including Internet technology, >simply wipe SignWriting out, reducing it obsolete? Why or why not? After >all, videocameras (useful for signed ASL) are shrinking rapidly in both >size and cost, as are computer chips, and new technology is continually >popping up to replace old ways of doing things. SignWriting is a way of writing sign languages. No technology advance, including the advance of Internet, will dismiss written languages. On the contrary, Internet is making written languages even more important, both as a means to build repositories of knowledge and information and as a means to exchange information among people. We even see an increase in the demand of better and faster automatic text translators to give people better access to the huge amount of information being made available worlwide on the net. > 6) What flaws does SignWriting and/or its software still have that needs >to be worked out? (Since you are all obviously proponents of SignWriting, >I expect positive comments in general; however, every program has its >kinks that it needs to work out, and SignWriting is no exception! :-) ) In my humble opinion, the main "flaw" in the SignWriting software (I mean, the whole set of software programs and systems that could support SignWriting) is the few amount of people working in developing it :-) Would there be more academic and industrial groups and organizations developing SignWriting software and we would have much more solid points of view about the many ways to use SignWriting both inside and outside the Internet. Success to you and the Silent News. My best regards to Valerie! Antonio Carlos ------------------------------- Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa Escola de Informática - ESIN/UCPEL email: Universidade Católica de Pelotas https://gmc.ucpel.tche.br R. Félix da Cunha, 412 fone: (0532) 22-1555 r.227 96010-000 Pelotas, RS, Brasil. fax: (0532) 25-3105 |
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