Blog about 69-page ASL book....

Fri Nov 16 22:00:40 UTC 2007

Hoi,
I have posted it as a comment..

For your info (not for the list)
http://www.omegawiki.org/bamberg_project_2008 University of Bamberg is
working on a project that may get it a lot of money .. some 200K EURO. Now
what I hope you like is that we aim to link your dictionaries to OmegaWiki.
What we hope to do is that people can say.. I speak Spanish and American
Sign Language.. and give the concepts in Spanish in stead of English. This
will also help when people look at the other dictionaries.. People do not
necessary use the dominant language that goes with a country.

PS this does not mean that I do not intent to include sign languages in
OmegaWiki :) It is just that when you can approach your dictionaries in a
mulitlingual way, it becomes relevant to more people.
Thanks,
    Gerard

On Nov 16, 2007 10:39 PM, Valerie Sutton <dac at signwriting.org> wrote:

> SignWriting List
> November 16, 2007
>
> Hello Gerard -
> Thank you for this blog. There have been other larger documents
> written in other Sign Languages, in SignWriting, in the past...For
> example, in Spain, there is a novel written in Madrid Sign Language
> and it is 140 pages, and there have been several large documents from
> Nicaragua in Nicaraguan Sign Language, but in ASL we have tended to
> write shorter ones, like 10 pages, instead of 69 pages. We hope to
> complete the entire Gospel According to John in 2008, which will be
> around 400 pages is my guess (21 chapters), and Nancy plans to
> continue to translate all four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John....
>
> Cat in the Hat and Sleeping Beauty will be fairly large too,
> depending on the accompanying illustrations. And yes, this is quite
> an accomplishment, because the older documents from Spain and
> Nicaragua were published with our old (classic) SignWriter DOS
> program that only writes from left to right on the page (there was no
> other software at the time of those publications). This is the first
> time that we are writing large documents with vertical columns, which
> encompasses important aspects of Sign Language grammar called
> Lanes...so we are glad to have the two programs we have: SignPuddle
> and SignBank, to produce these new vertical-column documents with
> Lanes...SignPuddle is the program we use to write in vertical lanes,
> and SignBank DocumentMaker is a program that helps us put those
> columns into book format....
>
> Just to give you some insight...and yes...this all leads to a future
> Wikipedia in ASL and other signed languages - that is for sure!
>
> Val ;-)
>
> PS. You are welcome to place this message on your blog if you wish!
>
>
>
> On Nov 16, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>
> > SignWriting List
> > November 16, 2007
> >
> > Thank you, Gerard, for this blog today about our new ASL document!
> > Val ;-)
> >
> > ----
> >
> > A message from Gerard today:
> >
> > Hoi,
> > I saw the other mail about a 69 page document in SignWriting .. I
> > blogged about it.
> > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2007/11/69-page-document-in-
> > signwriting.html
> > Thanks,
> >     Gerard
> >
> > ----------
> >
> >
> > On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
> >
> >> SignWriting List
> >> November 16, 2007
> >>
> >> Dear SW List Members!
> >>
> >> I am proud to announce a new Special Feature posted today...
> >>
> >> Go to:
> >>
> >> SignWriting Site
> >> http://www.SignWriting.org
> >>
> >> (If you have visited there recently, you may have to Refresh or
> >> Reload your web browser.)
> >>
> >>
> >> You will find two documents to download:
> >>
> >> 1. American Sign Language Book
> >> The Gospel According to John, Chapters 1-3
> >> Romero ASL Translation, 69 pages in PDF
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> 2. Five Articles from the Czech Republic
> >> About SignWriting in the Czech Republic 2007
> >> Published in UNIE Magazine
> >> Articles Written by Jan Fikejs
> >>
> >>
> >> THANK YOU, Nancy and Jan, for your contributions to our web site!
> >>
> >> And congratulations on your accomplishments in 2007...;-)
> >>
> >>
> >> Val ;-)
> >>
> >>
> >> Valerie Sutton
> >> Sutton at SignWriting.org
> >>
> >> 1. SignWriting
> >> Read & Write Sign Languages
> >> http://www.SignWriting.org
> >>
> >> 2. SignBank
> >> Create Sign Language Databases
> >> http://www.SignBank.org
> >>
> >> 3. SignPuddle
> >> Online Sign Language Community
> >> http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle
> >>
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