<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>June 16, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><DIV>Barbara Pennacchi wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">erm, I beg your pardon. I *do* look at IPA in dictionaries. It helps me in guessing the correct pronunciation, especially in english. :-)</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Oh. I bet you do! Of course people refer to the IPA in dictionaries to see a pronunciation. I was trying to explain, though, that when we write this email to each other, we are not using the IPA to write this email...we are using the English alphabet which is different than the IPA...that is what I meant...that the IPA is used for detailed writing, and the English alphabet is used for everyday writing in English..</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Writing is not for technology or for machines, it is ultimately for us. It is US (Deaf people and all native signers) that have to feel comfortable with one or another spelling, with one or another set of rules. Not them, the darn friggin' computers.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Monaco; min-height: 19px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Yeah, technology helps us, but it doesn't rule us... And it should NEVER rule us.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Monaco; min-height: 19px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Sorry -- bad day at work :-)</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Oh. Sorry to hear you had a bad day at work.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Meanwhile, I appreciate all your feedback. Without the Deaf staff members whom I worked with in the 1980s and 1990s (the Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting - the DAC), we would be writing receptively right now...and I bet that SignWriting would not be used that much...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So your help and feedback, and everyone's help and feedback, are greatly needed and welcome....</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>