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Valerie Sutton Date: Sun Oct 21, 2001 6:40 pm Subject: Re: e. lessons | |
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Stefan wrote: >In the meantime ;-) But it is a fact that all of us who discussed this >sign as a special one - we will be able to understand to read it - just as >mud - ha . muddy boots, muddy - SignWriting List October 21, 2001 Thank you, Stefan, for your wise words! You are absolutely correct that when reading signs, people who already know those signs, do not need enormous detail. Whether the fingers start at the middle finger or the baby finger is such a minute difference that it will still be read well by signers... Very detailed writing is not done on a daily basis for spoken languages either...I know there are some words that are pronounced differently in Canada in English, for example, if compared to American dialects...but we still write the words the same... So when developing new spellings of signs in SignWriting...try to think...Can this sign be confused with another sign, if I spell it this way? If the answer is "no", then the spelling is probably detailed enough...smile - Val ;-) |
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