<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>June 3, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Osaka" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Osaka">But as you said before Valerie - if people try to find out what works best</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Osaka" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Osaka">for their situation why not - smile<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello Stefan -</DIV><DIV>Yes, it is great to think in that relaxed fashion. It is better for the writing system to let people around the world write as they feel best, and then after awhile, certain writings become used more and more until they become a world standard without anyone trying to force the issue...it just happens naturally and that is the best.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So your documents, if they are read by many people, influence the symbol-usage of the future...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But I have also learned that...capitalization of signs.. is a good addition to the Punctuation Symbols...and I will try to document what is happening around the world...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>