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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Jun 9, 1999 11:30 pm Subject: Re: SWPL - Advanced Materials | |
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Kathy Akehurst wrote: >We're still having a 'thing' (amongst the adults) with facial expressions >(the children are great at drawing the faces) and, to be honest, I'm >beginning to believe that - for some - having facial expressions in or >leaving them out may be akin to the way some people use (or don't use!) >punctuation in written English. Some are more precise in their writing and >others just put in enough (in their opinion) to get the message across. >Personalities prevail, I guess. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I think this makes perfect sense. I probably wrote too many facial expressions from the video - they were so much fun to write I couldn't stop myself - ha! So here is my question - forgetting writing (for the moment) - could everyone READ the facial expressions? If they could read them, even if they could "take them or leave them" - if they were readable that means something to me. And in regards to the issues of "what to write and what not to write" - those are hard issues. Time will tell what is and is not important when writing signed languages. But at least we can write it all if we want to!! Maybe you could document what facial expressions they feel they absolutely need - are there any? Or are the adults ignoring all of them? 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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