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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Jun 29, 2000 4:29 am Subject: Re: standardized spellings | |
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At 11:40 PM -0400 6/28/00, Nancy Cole wrote: >I have a difficult time explaining to my >students that signs are different all over. Ummm I'm not even sure how to >put this question....but we were wondering is...if we are using the SW >lessons, and one of the signs shows different than how we use it here in NM, >should we rewrite the sign? We are only "babies" in this new technique, and >quite unsure of ourselves. We are trying to change some of my students books >into SW and alittle worried about how we should do it. So, any suggestions >would be helpful:) > >Smile >Nancy SignWriting List June 28, 2000 Hello SW List, and Nancy! Your question is an excellent one ;-) Since the SignWriting symbols can write any movement, you can choose to write exactly how you sign, or you can write how someone else signs...it is your choice. As you know, there is an ASL dictionary in the SignWriter shareware. Have you downloaded the shareware, Nancy? Download SignWriter Shareware https://www.SignWriting.org/catalog/sw128.html When you use SignWriter, you will find a dictionary of 3100 ASL signs written in SignWriting for you. Those 3100 signs were typed in SignWriting by three native signing Deaf people, plus two others also contributed some signs. All five came from different parts of the USA. Kathy Say from Arizona Butch Zein from Texas Bonita Ewan from Maryland? (not sure...I have to check that) Lucinda Batch from New Jersey Denny Voreck from California (his parents are Deaf from Austria) All of them discuss SignWriting on the web: https://www.SignWriting.org/deaf/deaf.html I mention this because our dictionary has many styles of signing in it...it is not just one dialect at all. There is one standardizing factor though - all five attended Gallaudet University. And they oftentimes disagreed with each other on signs, so I sometimes placed several ways of writing the same sign in the dictionary. So you are most welcome to write as you wish! You are also welcome to ask technical questions, if you are having trouble writing a particular sign... That is great that you are writing children's stories ;-)) -- Val ;-) ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org To Post A Message To The SW List: SignWriting List Archives: https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l |
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