<DIV>Wonderful signs. The brushing against the nose is kind of interesting. It looks like a pirate.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Charles Butler</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Valerie Sutton <sutton@SIGNWRITING.ORG></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">SignWriting List<BR>December 12, 2003<BR><BR>Dear SW List Members, and Nana and Hector!<BR>This is a message from Nana in the Philippines. Some members tell me<BR>that the message was not clear...that there was a computer glitch...so<BR>I went into the Archives and found that the Linguist web site, that<BR>houses our Archives, fixed the message and then posted it, so I am<BR>really impressed with the Linguist web site! Thank you to Michael<BR>Appleby from the Linguist site, for their excellent Archive system!...<BR><BR>And what was the problem? Sometimes the symbols for quotes,<BR>apostrophes, and other small symbols on computer keyboards have<BR>different internal numbers in the computers, so that when you post a<BR>message using those symbols, other people's computers cannot read them,<BR>and instead of a quote, out comes some strange symbol combination that<BR>is not a quote at
all! So I guess all of us should not use some of<BR>those symbols when we are just typing a simple email message. Of course<BR>it is hard to remember that though...I do it all the time myself and<BR>keep forgetting...<BR><BR>Here is Nanas message again without those symbols, for those who could<BR>not read it before:<BR><BR>------------------------<BR><BR>Hello Hector and SW-List,<BR><BR>Sorry, it took me some time to gather some of the signs you asked for.<BR>I was not able to get the signs for the main islands, because our deaf<BR>here didnt know them, maybe in the future :-).<BR>I realised that my sign document is a bit confusing, so I try to give<BR>you an introduction here:<BR>Philippines is the country. Manila is the capital. Then there are the<BR>three main islands (or island groups) that I dont have the signs for<BR>yet: They are Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Davao is the capital city of<BR>Mindanao. Cebu is both an island of Visayas and the capital of that<BR>island. The
deaf were not sure, if the sign is good for both, for sure<BR>it is the name of the capital Cebu City. Palawan is an island that<BR>belongs to Luzon. (Some of the Deaf think, that the signs for the other<BR>islands like: Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao and Cebu might have the same<BR>movement like Palawan just using the first letter of the name of each<BR>island).<BR>Bicol is the region of southern Luzon, where we are working. Naga and<BR>Legaspi- are provincial capitals of Camarines Sur and Albay<BR>respectively. Ligao, Iriga, Polangui, Daraga, Tabaco are smaller towns<BR>mostly in the province of Albay. The words are those that I have<BR>included signs for.<BR><BR>Greetings,<BR>Nana<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>> ATTACHMENT part 2 image/png x-mac-type=504E4766; x-unix-mode=0644; x-mac-creator=3842494D; name=Phil-Geographie.png<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1>
Do you Yahoo!?<br>
<a href="http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21260/*http://photos.yahoo.com">New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing</a>