<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>July 7, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Write to them to inquire at:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Summer Institute of Linguistics</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.sil.org">http://www.sil.org</A>/</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.sil.org/sil/contact.html">http://www.sil.org/sil/contact.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial">SIL International<BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial"> 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road<BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial"> Dallas TX 75236-5629,USA<BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial"> Telephone: (972) 708-7400<BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial"> FAX: (972) 708-7433</FONT></DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:WWW@sil.org">WWW@sil.org</A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial"></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>----------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 7, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Charles Butler wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><DIV>So how do I get a job with these folks?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Charles Butler<BR><BR><B><I>Valerie Sutton <<A href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</A>></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class="replbq" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">SignWriting List<BR>July 7, 2005<BR><BR>A good friend just informed me of an article about the Summer <BR>Institute of Linguistics and Stuart Thiessen, just published on the <BR>web in deafweekly.com....Glad to see your work is getting some <BR>attention, Stuart!...Val ;-)<BR><BR>Here's the article:<BR><BR>deafweekly.com<BR><A href="http://www.deafweekly.com/current.htm">http://www.deafweekly.com/current.htm</A><BR><BR>PROJECT AIMS TO PUT SIGN LANGUAGE IN WRITING<BR>The University of North Dakota in Grand Forks has offered a Summer <BR>Institute<BR>for Linguistics program for over 50 years, and this summer "the <BR>emphasis is<BR>on sign language," said SIL director Albert Bickford. People from 10<BR>different countries are working at UND this summer to put the grammar of<BR>various forms of sign language into writing. The goal of the linguistic<BR>group is to reduce all spoken languages of the world into writing, <BR>Bickford! <BR>told the Grand Forks Herald, and that includes sign language. It's <BR>not an<BR>easy task -- there are more than 150 forms of sign language worldwide <BR>-- but<BR>it's not all work: faculty, staff and students take meals together and<BR>socialize with volleyball, parties and camping. Graduate student Stuart<BR>Thiessen enjoys being around people who know sign language. "This is one<BR>place where I can tell a joke and the people will laugh," he said.<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>