<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>By the way, the writing system that they are using at Summer Institute of LInguistics is mostly SignWriting...I believe they introduce HamNoSys in courses, but SignWriting is used quite a lot at SIL...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>For example, Steve and Dianne Parkhurst, who work in Madrid with Madrid Sign Language, and who have written complete novels and newsletters and textbooks in SignWriting are working with the Summer Institute of Linguistics...And this summer Stuart Thiessen is assisting the Parkhursts in teaching a course at the SIL...it is going on right now...and they are learning to write Mexican Sign Language in SignWriting...all of the entries in the Mexican Sign Language SignPuddle on the web, are Stuart's and Seve and Dianne's students learning to add signs...smile...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mexican SignPuddle</DIV><DIV><A href="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-MX/index.php">http://signbank.org/signpuddle/sgn-MX/index.php</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I see they have added 118 signs, Stuart...that's good!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>How is the course going?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</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>