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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage15><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Dear SW List and Val!<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Thanks for your praise, Val </span></font></span><span
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. I do want to post some more FSL signs for the list,
but it will need to be a little later. The next 4 – 6 weeks will be very busy
as we are preparing for a three month leave – going to Austria and Romania. My
husband needs to check our latest translation with the deaf and I have to
prepare my first ever power point presentation (besides teaching our children
and several other „hats“). But I will keep it in mind and hopefully closer to
leaving here or after we arrive in Austria I will take the time to post several
signs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>About sign puddle: I never got into it, because of our phone connections
(you guess was correct, Val </span></font></span><span
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Wingdings'>J</span></span></font></span><span class=EmailFormatvorlage15><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>). I cannot do things if I need to stay on-line for
more than 10 – 20 minutes maximum. But I do hope to find some time to look into
it while in Austria. Then I will at least have an idea what everyone is talking
about </span></font></span><span class=EmailFormatvorlage15><font size=2
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class=EmailFormatvorlage15><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. But if I
understand correctly you could just create a Filippino Signpuddle now and I (or
whoever) can add signs later on? I do believe I already sent you several „geography
signs“ for the Philippines a while back. I am attaching them again. Maybe that
would be enough to get it started? – so as an answer to your question, Val: yes,
I would like for you to set up a FSL (Filippino Sign Language) signpuddle.
Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Greetings from the Philippines,<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>-----Ursprüngliche
Nachricht-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Von:</span></b> Valerie Sutton
[mailto:sutton@signwriting.org]<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> Samstag, 29. Jänner 2005
11:58<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>An:</span></b> sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> [sw-l] PHILIPPINES
SignWriting Report</span></font></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>SignWriting List<br>
January 28, 2005<br>
<br>
Dear SW List and Nana!<br>
Thank you for this excellent report! Your work in the Philippines is really
impressive, considering all the obstacles and problems you face...Can you share
your current SignWriting dictionary with us? I know it is not finished, but it
would be great to see some of your signs...maybe we can give you some feedback
on the SignSpellings...we are all editing our dictionaries right now.<br>
<br>
Regarding a new computer...well....yes...everyone knows I personally love the
Macintosh, and here in the US at least, the prices for Macs are going down now,
but even so...any new computer will be a blessing. SignWriter DOS works best on
old computers...on Windows 95 or 98. If you get a Mac or Windows XP, you will
have to run SignWriter DOS on a Windows 98 emulator...It all depends on how
much you are using your new computer for SignWriter...<br>
<br>
By the way, Nana...Have you seen the Sign Puddle dictionaries on the web?<br>
<br>
http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle<br>
<br>
We could create a Filippino Sign Language section on the web for you, but you
will need to access the internet, and I know that is sometimes problematic in
the Philippines, so there will be a version you can use on your computer
desktop later, and when that is ready, that will be another program you can
use...If you would like a Filipino Sign Puddle, just tell us, and we will
create it for you...<br>
<br>
Best of luck with your work in the Philippines! And I hope you can share some
of your signs with our List!... Val ;-)<br>
<br>
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mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:71.4pt'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>PHILIPPINES
SignWriting Report<br>
<b><?fontfamily><?param Helvetica><?color><?param 0000,0000,0000><span
style='font-weight:bold'>From: <?/color><?/fontfamily></span></b><?fontfamily><?param Helvetica>nana.dumitra@schlossklaus.at<br>
<b><?color><?param 0000,0000,0000><span style='font-weight:bold'>Date: <?/color></span></b><?color><?param 0000,0000,0000><?/color>January
23, 2005<br>
<br>
<?/fontfamily><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?bigger>Greetings from the
Philippines! You have not heard from me in a long time, but we are still here
and still busy. Our dictionary of FSL (Filipino SL) in SW is slowly growing, we
have started to teach more deaf how to use it etc. but our main focus is on teaching
deaf leaders of 4 churches and working on translation (parts of the Bibel into
FSL using SW). This we do in cooperation with SIL/Wycliff Bible translators.
Just this past week my husband was able to attend a seminar on FSL taught by
the PFD (Philippine Federation for the Deaf). They did a lot of research on FSL
and have now presented their paper, which is very impressive – proves FSL as
being a true language and gives a lot of good information about deaf culture
etc. The only draw back is that they don’t want to consider SW (we found out
that they have strong connections to Gallaudet and so they are more into Stokoe
<?/bigger><?/fontfamily><?fontfamily><?param Helvetica><?bigger>J<?/bigger><?/fontfamily><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?bigger>).
Still, it is a good contact and we pray that the future will show that more and
more deaf will be interested in SW – probably more in the provinces, where many
deaf don’t know English at all or just very little, PFD is mostly in Manila and
there many deaf have a better command of English. One thing that was very
interesting from their research: Bicol, the area we are living and working in
is the one region of the Philippines that has hardly been influenced by ASL and
so “our” signs here are the most “traditional” FSL.<br>
<br>
In March or April our organisation will buy a new laptop for our work. Can you
give us some suggestions as to what would be good to look at in order to be
able to use it well for SW? I recall some mails that Mac would be better, but
is more expensive (which is definitly an issue for our organisation). What kind
or operating system, programs, memory, speed etc. should we look at to make it
as “good” as possible for SW? I don’t understand all the computer issues, but
if you give me some ideas then our computer guys in Austria will have a better
idea what to look for.<br>
<br>
Thank you so much,<br>
Nana in the Philippines<?/bigger><?/fontfamily></span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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