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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Hello SW listmembers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>My name is Nana, I am from Austria
and my husband, Marian, is from Romania – his parents are deaf, his first
language is Romanian Sign. We are missionaries working with the Deaf in the
Philippines.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>We heard about SignWriting a few
years ago, but never found the time to check out the site. Well, a few weeks
ago I finally tried to get to the Website – a bit difficult with our phone
lines here, but a friend was able to download the DOS version for me and now I
started using it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>At the moment we are just “playing”
with it, trying to figure out how to schedule our time to do everything we need/
want to do. We have 4 children (1 – 7 years), I am homeschooling and of course
there is bible studies, church services and other meetings with the Deaf all of
the time.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>We want to find out how well the
Deaf here will accept SW (so far the few we talked to about it were very encouraged
and impressed, that their language can be written!!!). I started to work on a
dictionary for Filippino Sign Language, but don’t have a lot of time for it (I
try to do at lease 15 minutes every day).<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage15><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>A question: Since here there are two
official languages (English and Tagalog) for the future it would be great to
have all three languages in the dictionary: English, Tagalog and Sign. Is there
a possibility in the DOS dictionary to do this? Or would this work with the
Dictionary software (we cannot afford it right now, but would like to get it at
some point)? Can you give me some general ideas on how to proceed to get a “correct”
dictionary (how to do research, to check which signs should be included etc.)?
I am very interested in languages (know German, English, Romanian, Romanian
Sign, a bit of ASL and a bit of Filippino Sign so far, we are also trying to
study Tagalog), but I don’t have any formal linguistic background.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>I hope these are not too many
questions for one post </span></font></span><span class=EmailFormatvorlage15><font
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mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>??<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Nana<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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