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From:
Hector Devia Date: Sat Dec 8, 2001 10:05 pm Subject: Re: SignoEscritura and SenaGrafia. | ||||||||
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Sw list and Valerie Sutton: I understand that SignWriting and SignWriting is the trademark and it is a proper name; I feel it is ok, just pople call the computers programs as they are in english as Windows, Word, Linux, etc, some times I use the the english words for SigWriting and SignWriter, especialy in connection to DAC and computer program, but in informal sets it sound puff up for some people, so the use of "SignWriting and SignWriter" depends of the set. But "the thing and the event" that means "They way and the form to write signed languages" need a name in the vernacular language who become familiar with it; in the same way we refer to others forms to write spoken languages as cuneiform, demotic, hieroglyphics, hieratic, ideographic, pictografic, etc. By the way, when I show the SignWriting symbols to Deaf in Medellin, and explain the systems I use the ASL form, for SW, and later I adapt to the LSC form too, but Deaf use a diferen sign, that mean "chinese or japanese write" because it was nor letters from the spoken language, and they continue using it. So I think it is necessary a meaningful word or expresion in the vernacular language to describe it. Good day to SW List members. | ||||||||
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