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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Oct 15, 1998 8:31 pm Subject: Re: Writing SW Literature | |
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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Cecilia Smith wrote: >What you are talking about is someone telling stories, these stories are >being TRANSCRIBED into a written form, and reproduced as a written form of >an oral tradition. That is the process that all the spoken language >stories have gone through too. The only trick is, you hope that the >transcribed version is a good one, becuz what gets written down get set in >cement. >Cecelia _______________________ October 15, 1998 I just returned from the land of bookkeeping (a very boring place :-), only to find a long list of messages on the SignWriting List! Plus some pretty terrific private messages too...I feel like it's Christmas :-) Yes, Cecelia, that is exactly what we did here at the DAC...Darline signed the stories in her native language, and then later I transcribed one of them, and we plan to do all of them later. As you all know, there are two books that will be published soon...one is the full transcription of the story, which I am calling SignWriting Level 4. The other is SignWriting Level 3, where I "break down" the elements of writing the story. I am hoping that the two books together will make it possible for people to become fluent advanced readers. I hope to have the two books ready by the end of this year. I can understand your concern for good quality writing, and of course that is what we all want - certainly we are trying our best. I have also learned that in the beginning of a new era, like this one, there is some room for flexibility if we work together. In other words, we are not trapped by our mistakes or imperfections either. If, after we publish the transcription of the video stories, we find that it can be improved, then with your feedback we can do that, before it gets "cast in cement". I guess you can say that the "cement is still wet enough to smooth out the edges" :-) By the way...we are not the only ones transcribing videotapes into SignWriting - I know of several other groups doing the same in other signed languages, and I know of one group that is planning to do so in ASL in the future - so as more transcription is done, we will get a better grasp on how to do it successfully. Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Visit the SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org Valerie Sutton at The DAC Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA (619)456-0098 voice (619)456-0010 tty (619)456-0020 fax |
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