good news - another two Belgian schools supporting SW

[Shane O hEorpa]

Kathleen,

two things here.

1. its natural that Thierry and Bruno are borrowing a lot of signs from 
the Flemish puddle - after all, VGT and LSFB are two main dialects of 
the 'lost' Belgian Sign Language!

2. im smiling - you and Damian are Belgians yet you chose to converse 
in English not Dutch or French - it brings me to the day when I was in 
Brussels with my Belgian mate - we were looking at some DVDs and he 
said that TVs showing DVDs at that shop had to be voiced in English, 
not Dutch/French or one language group will complain etc etc :o

a bit like the silly fights between the NISL users and the ISL users - 
the real plus is that most NISL users know ISL anyway...yet ISL users 
dont know NISL - only BSL which is not very useful (you ll have to look 
at Ronan Dunne who is on the Frontrunners Website - he do use NISL 
signs in his ISL now cos he go to Belfast a lot!)

Shane


On 17 Oct 2005, at 12:37, Kasterlinden Bilinguaal wrote:

> Hello Val,
>
> I sent the good news to Damien and he asked me if SignEdit and 
> Signpuddle are compatible.. he has made a lot of signs in SignEdit and 
> I think he`s worried he`ll have to do it all over again ;)
>
> Greetings Kathleen
>
>  From: "Damien ilmh" <damien.huvelle at ilmh.be>
> To: "Kasterlinden Bilinguaal" <katjesaar at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Re: [sw-l] good news - another two Belgian schools 
> supporting SW
> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:54:39 +0200
>
>
> Hello Kathleen,
>  
> at the moment, I mostly use SignEdit. The signs that already are on 
> the SignPuddle BE-Fr page are from Bruno Sonnemans, a deaf colleague 
> who was present at the conference this summer at Kasterlinden. He and 
> Thierry, another deaf colleague, are at the moment collecting data and 
> the dictionary already includes more than 600 signs. Nevertheless, as 
> they are only at the beginning and not so sure whether the 
> transcriptions are correct, they also use SignEdit at the moment. I 
> know they are impressed by the Flemish Signpuddle and borrowing signs 
> from there too.
>  
> But I do not know whether SignEdit and SignPuddle are compatible...
>  
> I'll ask them.
>  
> Thanks for your help.
>  
> Kind regards,
>  
> Damien
> ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Kasterlinden Bilinguaal
> To: damien.huvelle at ilmh.be
> Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 3:17 PM
> Subject: FW: Re: [sw-l] good news - another two Belgian schools 
> supporting SW
>
>
> Hello Damien,
>
> while waiting for news from my colleagues about a first meeting I 
> thought I'd inform you about the website of Valerie Sutton. I don't 
> know if you know about it or use it already...
>
>  http://signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-BE-fr
>
> If you look at this link you'll see there are already some sings in 
> there: I don't know who made them :s If you have any questions on how 
> to use Signpuddle please ask ;) And if there are signs which are the 
> same in Flemish Sign Language you can save a lot of work and copy them 
> from the Flemish Signpuddle ;)
>
> So if you have any questions, please ask ;)
>
> Greetings Kathleen
>
>
> From:  "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
> Reply-To:  sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> To:  sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Subject:  Re: [sw-l] good news - another two Belgian schools 
> supporting SW
> Date:  Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:48:36 -0700
> >SignWriting List
> >October 14, 2005
> >
> >Hello Shane, Kathleen and everyone -
> >This is great news. Thanks for telling us...;-)
> >
> >We already have a SignPuddle set up for French-speaking Belgium:
> >
> >Walloon Sign Language
> >http://signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-BE-fr
> >
> >Feel free to start adding signs any time...
> >
> >Val ;-)
> >
> >------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >On Oct 14, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Shane O hEorpa wrote:
> >
> >>Good news here.
> >>
> >>I was told that two Belgian deaf schools (french speaking) have  
> >>decided to introduce Sign-Writing to its classroom teaching
> >>
> >>It is IRSA at Uccle and another school in Liege.
> >>
> >>Damien Huvel, a researcher of LSFB at Marie Haps, is behind the  
> >>move - he was present at the ESWO Conference - with Thierry  
> >>Haesenne's help - with extra support from our lovely Kathleen, they
> >>  hope it will take off ground :-)
> >>
> >>Very pleased - and good news for ESWO!
> >>
> >>Shane (ESWO)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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> voorkomen
>
>
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