<DIV>So how do I get a job with these folks?</DIV>
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<DIV>Charles Butler<BR><BR><B><I>Valerie Sutton <sutton@signwriting.org></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>http://www.deafweekly.com/current.htm<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>