[sw-l] Weighing in on salesmanship

[Valerie Sutton]

Thank you, Charles, for explaining this to everyone! yes...the 
Brazilian documents are really great...Here is one children's story on 
the web...

Children's Story in Brazilian Sign Language in SignWriting
http://www.signwriting.org/library/children/uma/uma.html

Val ;-)

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On Mar 6, 2005, at 10:08 AM, Charles Butler wrote:

> Hi Sandy,
>  
> I was fortunate to be a part of a project in Brazil to translate one 
> of Valerie's books into Portuguese and Brasilian Sign Language 
> (LIBRAS).  All of the examples had to be changed, all the language 
> verified, and all of the writing discussed, and discussed, and 
> discussed.
>  
> It's a slow process, but well worth the effort.  Marianne Stumpf, 
> through her tireless efforts, has seen SW been accepted in many many 
> schools in southern Brazil, and Fernando Capovilla has published an 
> encylopedic dictionary of Sao Paulo-based dialect of Brasilian Sign 
> Language.  Both of these tomes took years to do write, and will always 
> be works in progress.
>  
> That's what SignPuddle is about.  A way to put simple vocabulary up, 
> have it discussed, so that then the process of single signs and 
> complete grammatical sentences can be done.
>  
> We don't want to frighten people away with complexity, but SW is just 
> like writing a spoken language.  You start with a primer, a well-known 
> fairy tale or children's stories, with simple sentences, and build up 
> to dictionaries, textbooks, and encyclopedias.
>  
> Charles Butler
>
> Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org> wrote:
> Hi Val!
>
> > I would NEVER give a person who never heard of something, a thick
>  > manual teaching them the subject matter, before they have seen
>  > something simple.... My goodness...that would frighten me! Or at 
> least
>
>  Well, that's how I started!
>
> Snady
>
>
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