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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Nov 12, 1999 1:33 am Subject: Re: SW in the future | |
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>Thank you for posting the vision by Kevin Clark. That was *exactly* what >I was >looking for. :-) > >It'll be interesting to see how the generation of kids learning >SignWriting now >adapt it. Will they develope short forms? Abbreviations? Stylized forms? > It's >all rather exciting. > >Bill Reese > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes it is quite exciting, Bill. Thanks for your message. Of course, as a late-deafened adult who uses ASL you have a very unique perspective, and maybe your uses for SignWriting will be different than born-deaf children's uses will be. I suspect there will be different visions for SignWriting as the generations march on.... In Kevin Clark's case, he is born-Deaf into a Deaf family...several generations it seems from what I can tell. So that is another perspective. I never forgot one day Kevin handed me the most wonderful hand-written SignWriting that was so visual - all in the visual units we are accustomed to use now, writing down vertically and quickly - in the Handwriting. And he told me how natural it felt to write this way..it felt like coming "home", he told me. I never forgot that moment... I am looking forward to seeing my Deaf friends again...the computer program development has robbed us of the funds to pay for both - so I have been paying computer programmers and not a Deaf staff - I hope that will change in year 2000...at least have a little more of a balance - between programming and dictionary work :-) If you want to read more about Deaf people's vision about SignWriting, we do have some Deaf opinions on the web, and some of them are quite interesting... Deaf Opinions on SignWriting Directory https://www.SignWriting.org/home.html#anchor171873 1. Kathleen Say https://www.SignWriting.org/deaf001.html 2. Lucinda Batch https://www.SignWriting.org/deaf002.html 3. Bonita Ewan https://www.SignWriting.org/deaf003.html 4. Denny Voreck https://www.SignWriting.org/deaf004.html 5. Abdul Aziz Al-Obaid https://www.SignWriting.org/deaf005.html 6. Kevin Clark https://www.SignWriting.org/deaf011.html 7. Hans Abildgaard https://www.SignWriting.org/deaf012.html 8. Eva Abildgaard https://www.SignWriting.org/deaf013.html Best- Val ;-) |
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