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Valerie Sutton Date: Sat Jan 9, 1999 11:34 pm Subject: SignWriting Report, Jan. 9, 1999 | |
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SignWriting Report January 9, 1999 Wow...such a wonderful week filled with messages discussing Chinese and SignWriting and many other things! It was hard to keep up with all of the messages! I really enjoyed reading them :-) I have three things to tell you: 1. Our Annual SignWriting Membership Meeting will be held on February 7, 1999 in my home in La Jolla. Anyone who has paid their membership dues is welcome to attend. Members pay $15.00 annually, and receive half price on all publications, plus they are a part of our organization and can vote at the meeting, or they can send in a proxy. I will be mailing the proxies and invitations out to SW members soon. 2. SignWriter 5.0 Larry Peranich, our computer programmer, and I, just had a meeting an hour ago. We are making some progress on SignWriter 5.0, and we are now designing a way to type down the page in vertical columns, along with many other important things that makes SignWriter 5.0 quite different than SignWriter 4.3. More on that next week. 3. Writing Spanish Sign Language in SignWriting In an hour, I will be picking guests up at the airport. Steve and Dianne Parkhurst are American linguists who live in Madrid, Spain. They have been studying Spanish Sign Language, and are skilled in SignWriting. They have used the SignWriter Computer Program for years, and it is because of their work, and also the work of another linguist named Irma Maria Munoz Baell in Alicante, that I developed the Spanish version of our computer program. The three of them told me the new handshapes that were needed, and I tricked the old MS-DOS program to accept more symbols than it was meant to hold! This was back in 1995. Steve and Dianne Parkhurst, and Irma Maria, have presented workshops on SignWriting in Spain, and recently they have been working on a new book teaching SignWriting in Spanish and Spanish Sign Language. The book is not ready yet, but when it is published of course we will announce it to the SignWriting List. Steve and Dianne are visiting me to share this document with me. I feel very honored and excited about this, and I look forward to sharing with them. I have not seen them in years, so I am really looking forward to their visit! And they have a new baby boy, only a few months old :-) To read more about SignWriting in Spain, we do have some information on the web: SignWriting In Spain https://www.SignWriting.org/sw114.html Sooo...you may not hear much from me until Wednesday of next week, because I will be focusing on writing Spanish Sign Language, but I look forward to reading all of your messages then!! All my best wishes - 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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