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Ingvild Kristine Roald Date: Tue Nov 16, 1999 1:13 pm Subject: Re: A question...writing takes time now | ||||||||
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Hi all, this question of how much time it takes to write a sign, that is exatly what I meant when I said in a former message that we don not have (strict, explisit, ...) spelling rules. It means that as long as the users of a certain sign language has not used SignWriting long enough to basically agree on the spelling of most signs, we will have to try to figure out what is the most important thing to write in that sign. What iss really a part of the sign, a necessary part of it, what would lead to misunderstandings if you did not write it. And also you have to really look at your hands and feel your face, shoulders etc. For those of us who are hearing, we hardly remember when we were sounding out the words to learn reading, and we definitly do not feel for the position and movements of the tounge and the lips etc. in order to figure out how to write a word. But something like that is what we are doing in SW now - there are few right answers at the moment (but there are some wrong ones - if we disobey the spelling rules we do have, or we place the hand in a posistion it does not have, or ... ). So this means that getting a dictionary of any SL with the signs correctly spelled, will take time. In the meantime, we are the experimenters, and the rules will follow as we go on. In time it will be more easy, when there is more written material about, and more SL users are also SW users and can make their critique of the attempts. Good luck to you all, Ingvild Ingvild Kristine Roald Reseach fellow, Department of Applied Education University of Bergen, N-5020 BERGEN, Norway e-mail: Department phone: +47 55 58 48 30 Department fax: +47 55 58 48 80 Private phone: +47 55 28 34 34 | ||||||||
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