<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>May 30, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Antony Daamen wrote:<DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Monaco">It will not help German reading or writing, and dare I say little help to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Monaco">speaking German.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>There are over 100 muscles involved in speaking and you</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Monaco">only show the mouth and possibly cheek muscles....</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Monaco; min-height: 19.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Monaco">I appreciate that you do some very good work there in Germany, just wanted</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Monaco">to get this of my chest. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Monaco; min-height: 19.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Monaco">Like to hear your thought on these points....</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>---------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Actually, Antony, this is not true. Stefan has been pioneering several new ideas, and they seem to be working with his Deaf students...One of the benefits of Stefan's Mundbildschrift is assisting in written translations...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>For example, Stefan's Deaf students have already shown that using Stefan's Mundbildshrift (facial expressions that show the movements of speech) helps Deaf students translate written German documents...Take a look at the photo...the student is writing German, translating from a SignWriting document, that has lots of facial expressions...So using facial expression symbols from SignWriting can be a benefit to written translations...(there are other benefits too)....</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:8A9525A5-D0C2-4D05-8D42-2F0246BAD022@local"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>