<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title></title>
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
Val,<br>
Absolutely. I noticed that too. Of course my adult mind is also
noticing the top and bottom of the punctuation and using those to
assist in establishing the limits. But if you us too much space, not
much can be fit on a page and that may frustrate some more advanced
readers. Perhaps there's a way of spacing similar to how I grew up.
When a child and first learning to write, the teachers gave me paper to
use that had very widely spaced lines. By the time I went to college I
was using "college rule". Now as a professional, I'll use 6 pt.
lettering in construction plans if it makes all the information fit on
a sheet. Perhaps the same could be done for SignWriting so that as
understanding increases with age and ability, the signs and spaces can
get smaller.<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
<br>
<br>
Valerie Sutton wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid1FEE68DB-7921-11D8-9B8B-000A959F2614@signwriting.org">SignWriting
List
<br>
March 18, 2004
<br>
<br>
On Mar 18, 2004, at 12:35 PM, Bill Reese wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">You know me - I'm late-deaf and have only
been using sign language for about 7 or so years - yet I had no problem
following the flow of the signs on PUDL's site. The horizontal space
didn't bother me and, while the vertical looked like it could be
improved, I didn't have a problem with signs blending together. Bill
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
-----
<br>
<br>
Hello Everyone, and Stephen and Bill -
<br>
Thanks for this comment, Bill, and certainly it is good for Stephen to
know this. And I am glad you are reading SignWriting and have no
trouble with it!
<br>
<br>
However, I know of six others who disagree with you...smile...namely 5
teachers of the Deaf in Albuquerque, and myself.... One of the teachers
is Deaf herself, and I understood through an interpreter in the last
workshop that they all felt there needed to be more space between the
signs...
<br>
<br>
I think teaching SignWriting to children, and reading SignWriting
yourself, are probably two different experiences...Let us imagine you
are using the Translation web page in a class of deaf children ages
6-8, and they see two contact stars touching the chin of the first sign
in this diagram ...The stars really belong with the sign for NAME
below, but I can imagine a child asking what is touching the chin of
the sign for HELLO?...smile... So to assist literacy, I think it is
wise to put more space.......Val ;-)
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<hr width="90%" size="4"><br>
<center><img src="cid:part1.04010807.05090806@tampabay.rr.com"></center>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>