<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>June 27, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>On Jun 27, 2005, at 4:15 AM, eyasu tamene wrote:</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms">I tried 'Greeting' again I wonder if I could get it now. I inquired you regarding the more complex ESL alphabet. I tried to describe you verbally last time. How am I going to describe them? My quiestion in short is- Are all the signs in the Sign Puddles represent SL of the world?</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms"><B></B></FONT>Hello Eyasu and Everyone!</DIV><DIV>I am sorry I did not answer your other questions about the other symbols used in the Ethiopian Manual Alphabet. The answer is YES...we should have all of the symbols used in 30 signed languages. At least that is what we are trying to accomplish. So for example, in the American Manual Alphabet we use 26 symbols, but we have close to 200 handshapes in SignPuddle and many of those are not used in ASL at all, but they are used in other signed languages around the world. So each country has to pick and choose the symbols they need to write with. And if the handshape really isn't there, then I add that new handshape to the symbolset myself...and so we keep building more and more handshapes...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have trouble understanding word-descriptions. Can you post illustrations of your Ethiopian Manual Alphabet? Then I can find the symbols for you...but reading the words is hard for me to be sure it is what you want...So either pictures or drawings or video is what we need to write something properly, since Ethiopian Sign Language is new for us...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Maybe you have a little card that shows the Manual Alphabet easily? Can you scan that into the computer and post it to the SignWriting List? Many thanks!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>