<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>May 27, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Steve Slevinski wrote:</FONT></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">For now, when labeling a sign, only spoken langauges are available. Unicode is supported, but I haven't tested it yet. The Labels field can be used for terms, definitions or anything else. Each phrase should have it's own line in the labels field. This allows you to have more than one label per langauge per sign.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV><DIV>Is the SignPuddle Community dictionary a multi-lingual dictionary that takes one sign, and then gives the definitions for that one sign, in multiple spoken languages?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>That is very exciting...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So how do you differentiate the individual gloss-word that you use to find a sign, and the long phrase that might be associated with that sign?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>When I used the pull-down menu, to choose the spoken language I wanted to use, the pull-down menu included spoken languages that are no longer spoken...like Middle English (used in 1500s) and Ancient Greek (smile)...which no one speaks today!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So can you eliminate the spoken languages that are not used any longer? The pull-down menu is too long and I could not hold the mouse down that long because my hand started to hurt...smile...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But generally this is a very interesting idea, because most signs are used in different countries, but oftentimes have different meanings...like the sign for COOK in ASL can mean TRANSLATE A LANGUAGE.... in Danish Sign Language etc...<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">SignPuddle 1.0 will stay up and active on SignBank.org for as long as it is used.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Wonderful! So we can continue to work as we are right now, plus we will have these new features on SignPuddle.org....that is great!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>many thanks for all this!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>