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Valerie Sutton Date: Tue Apr 27, 1999 8:11 pm Subject: SignWriter manuals in Norwegian | ||||||||
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April 27, 1999 Dear SignWriting List: Back on April 18th, I posted a "SignWriting Report". In that report I stated: >Until now, SignWriter was available in 8 spoken languages (commands >on the screen only, not the manuals), but now German commands will be >available for people too. So German is our ninth spoken language. >Swiss-German fingerspelling is our 15th fingerspelling keyboard. Soon after, I received the following message, that was meant to be posted to the SignWriting List :-) Here it is: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "Ingvild Kristine Roald" Organization: UiB To: SignWriting Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:52:11 +0000 Subject: SignWriter manuals in Norwegian Hi all, yesterday Valerie said that the commands on spoken languages other than English were only on the screen, not in manuals. But since it is a long time ago that we got the first Norwegan translation (for version 3.0!) and also the translation for the 4.x , and with all her workload and everything, it is no wonder she has forgotten. These are not distributed by the DAC or Valerie, but by Vestlandet Kompetansesenter, Bjorkasen vg. Skole Nedre Bjorkasen 15 N-5227 NESTTUN Norway They may be of help to Danes and Swedes besides Norwegians, even if the <Alt+letter> commands are different. There also is a textbook for learning SignWriting, called "To read and write SIGN by Suttons SignWriting", a bit dated, but I hope to start a revision with the help of deaf friends when we have crossed the millenium. SignWriting has been part of the curriculum for those in the general stream of the upper secondary school for about 10 years now. Only an introduction, but nevertheless. Besides, I have been into classes in the elementary school, showing them some of the features, and the children seem to take to it very fast indeed! After half an hour of instruction, they can read quite complicated sentences with symbols they have not been shown. I think that is great. Good luck to you all, Ingvild Ingvild Kristine Roald Institutt for Praktisk Pedagogikk Universitetet i Bergen N-5020 BERGEN Norway e-mail: UNIV: SCHOOL: PRIVATE: tel: +47 55 58 47 98 +47 55 11 86 00 +47 55 28 34 34 fax: +47 55 58 48 80 +47 55 11 86 01 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org The DAC, Deaf Action Committee for SW Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ||||||||
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