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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Apr 11, 2001 2:43 am Subject: Re: Hard-to-Write Handshapes | |
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Stefan wrote: >If there is already the answer in our archives - I apologize - but I >learned from my own history of learning to read and write SW that I >haven ±" been prepared well enough to understand some answers in the past >;-( >Stefan ;-) SignWriting List April 10, 2001 Certainly there is no need to apologize...It is very hard to teach and learn through email. I apologize too, if I have not explained something well enough. I frankly doubt that there are other Internet Lists that provide lessons through email....Does anyone know of other Lists that teach lessons? It is hard to teach by email because it takes time to prepare the diagrams, and while I am preparing them, new questions are asked. Then the lesson plan, which I had organized in advance, gets changed, and instead I am chasing after the questions, trying to answer them all...without any consistency to the subject matter. And then I cannot physically show you what I am writing...so we are dependent on words to describe movement...and words just aren't good enough. Thank you for the photo, Stefan. It is from the Receptive Viewpoint. Someday I need some Expressive photos, so we would be seeing the hands from the signer's point of view...the way you really write it. But if you are willing to read the Receptive Writing, and learn to switch to Expressive, I will be happy to write on top of the Receptive Photos. By the way, Tini, your writing of "boat" or holding "water", is not the same position as Stefan shows in his photo, which is a flat hand...but yours was a curved hand, and I will teach that later too...Right now, I will prepare diagrams based on the photo, and hopefully post the new lesson tomorrow... I am having a visitor from Ireland...the developer of the Sutton True Type Fonts, Michael Everson, who is also the Unicode expert who will be preparing SignWriting in Unicode in the future, is coming to visit me Thursday... For those interested in downloading the SignWriting Fingerspelling Fonts that Michael designed, go to: Download SignWriting Fingerspelling Fonts https://www.SignWriting.org/catalog/sw214.html Michael and I have worked over the telephone and via the internet for several years, but we have never met face to face...so I am really looking forward to our Thursday meeting, which will be about Unicode, Java and the future of typing SignWriting...I only wish Antonio Carlos could be with us, to explain more about SWML ;-) More soon - -- Val ;-> ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://groups.yahoo.com/group/sw-l/ To post a message to the SW List: |
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