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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);"></span></span><span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a>></span></span></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2">Subject: <span></span><span class="gI"></span><span class="gI">LL-L "Sign language" 2011.05.01 (04) [EN]</span></font></p>
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<span></span><span></span><span></span></font></p><font size="2">お早うはん！<br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="2"><br>Pat asked (half-seriosuly?):</font><div class="im"><font size="2"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size="2">> Wouldn't the Japanese sign language leave little
traces of hiragana in the air?</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><font size="2">And Sandy replied: <br></font></div>
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</div><div><font size="2">Yes, because of the fingerspelling.<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote>
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</font><div><font size="2">Well, as the resident expert of Japanese Sign language, actually,
the fingerspelling is DIFFERENT from the tracing in the air. While a few
of the "letters" are in fact fingerspelled by tracing in the air
(though in KATAkana, not HIRAgana), there is ALSO a practice of
literally tracing in the air (called sky-writing 空書き), and that can be
not only hiragana, but also kanji... (and of course less often, but when
appropriate, Katakana)<br><br>Typically though, in one to one communication for tracing kanji (as
in replying to the question: "how do you write your name?) the Japanese
Deaf person traces the kanji on their palm (so I would trace 茂流岸 on my
palm: mo-ru-gan). In the context of a larger audience, palm writing
doesn't work, so then I would trace exactly the same kanji in large
"letters" in the air (probably also giving a kanji-for-kanji meaning
translation in JSL: "lush-green flowing shore").</font>
<font size="2"><br><br>namaste!</font>
<font size="2"><br><br>mwm || U C > || mike || мика || माईक || マイク || மாய்க் (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)<br><br>Senior Consultant<br>BA in Applied Sign Language Studies (BAASLS)<br>Indira Gandhi National Open Univeristy<br>
New Delhi, India<br></font><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><p><font size="2">"<span>Too
often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we
excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered
dreams of others. ... [T]here is another kind of violence, slower but
just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is
the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow
decay." (Bobby Kennedy, 5 April 1968)</span></font></p></div></div><font size="2">
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