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James Womack Date: Mon Mar 20, 2000 9:13 pm Subject: Re: SignWriting as a gateway? | ||||||||
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Valerie Sutton wrote: > > On 3/12/00, Charles Butler wrote: > >Folks, if you write fingerspelling, you are in fact wrting English in Sign > >Writing. No matter how you slice it, you have taken the English alphabet, > >an orthographic system for writing sounds and represented it in handshapes. > >Those handshapes when strung together form English words, ergo, that IS a > >Sign Written form of English. People, get over it, Sign Writing is a > >writing form, not English, nor ASL, nor anything else, it writes human > >motion. > > SignWriting List > March 20, 2000 > > Thanks Charles for this statement. Sometimes people ask me why we > write the fingerspelling symbols in the middle of a written Sign > document, when we could just write English letters?.... > > So I point out that we are not writing English. We are writing > movement. To stop the flow of reading the movements, and jerk the > reader into the Roman Alphabet all of a sudden, and then go back to > writing movement again would not only be unrealistic, it would miss > the point....We are writing how someone signs, and when people sign, > they do not stop their signing in mid-sentence and write the Roman > Alphabet, and then go back to signing again...they instead keep on > moving, and that is why in SignWriting we keep on writing SW > symbols...we are writing the movements. I wonder how many times you will have to explain this very simple fact and concept? It seems so obvious. -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Squirrel wisdom: (\__/) .~ ~.)) /O O ./ .' {O__, \ { Photons have mass!? I didn't know / . . ) they were Catholic! |-| '-' \ ( _( )_.' https://www.education.eku.edu/Sed/faculty/womack/default.htm | ||||||||
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