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Susanne Bentele Date: Thu Jan 14, 1999 10:23 am Subject: Re: Notation Systems | |
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HI Valerie! >So good morning - ha! :-) >And of course, other systems are of interest to many people, and I have >always had admiration for the HamNoSys system, so please feel welcome on >the SignWriting List! oh, no problem... I do feel welcome! >But back to the subject of other systems. The other day I was talking with >a linguist, and the linguist used this term....SignWriting is a "practical >orthography", and HamNoSys and other systems are "linguistic >orthographies". So we discussed this together, and I think that is an >interesting way to describe the differences. Would you say that is a good >way to describe it? Yes, I think that's not a bad way of describing it. But still - the term of 'orthography' implies that there are rules you have to stick to. Of course, there are many rules of 'syntactical' nature as to what is allowed and what isn't. However, at least for HamNoSys, there is no correct 'spelling' for a specific sign. As you said: you write down what you see. But it is certainly right insofar as SignWriting is more 'practical' and HamNoSys is more linguistic.... (But we are indeed working on a more phonological version of HamNoSys and this is certainly a step towards orthography) Have a good day. Susanne Susanne Bentele Universität Hamburg Institut für Deutsche Gebärdensprache und Kommunikation Gehörloser University of Hamburg Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf Binderstr. 34 20146 Hamburg - Germany Tel.: ++49-40-428.38-6734 Geschäftszimmer: ++49-40-428.38-6737 ST: ++49-40-428.38-6738 Fax: ++49-40-428.38-6109 https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/tlex |
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