<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>August 16, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Nana Dumitra from the Philippines wrote:<SPAN style=""></SPAN><DIV><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Thanks to a donation by Neil Bauman, I got SW membership again for this year. What I did not know at that time was that now it comes with one free private lesson with Val! I was excited, but didn’t really know what I wanted to use the lesson for. Then she mailed the SW e-mail about when school starts again, I wrote and answer in SW but by accident mailed it to Val privately instead of the list. Now Val took the opportunity to teach me more. It was really great! I could tell from my writing that it looked different from what I saw e.g. in the ASL dictionary, but I did not see where the “problem” was. Now Val graciously pointed out a basic rule of SW and all of a sudden it makes more sense. She even put her spelling suggestions into Filipino </SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="SpellE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">SignPuddle</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">. I have not had time to work on it, so maybe you want to take a look to see the differences! I really enjoyed having Val check some of my writing and being able to learn something. I am sure that will also be very good when teaching others how to use SW. Thought I would let you all know, maybe you would also enjoy a private lesson from Val. As far as I understand one comes included in the membership, but then I think you can also get more for additional payment, but Val probably knows more about that, right? </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">After I redo our signs, I will send my SW e-mail again, but this time to the whole list so you can enjoy it, too.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">--------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello Nana and Neil!</DIV><DIV>Thanks to you both...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Neil...your funding is greatly appreciated!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And Nana, it was a joy for me to study and write some of the Filipino signs with you...I really enjoyed the experience...It felt like I had traveled to a distant land...smile...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And you already know the SignWriting symbols well, I can see that. We worked on writing the position of contact, which tightens up the SignSpellings, making them more readable as a unit...This will help Nana's translations of the Bible later, into Filipino Sign Language...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If anyone wants to know what it means to write the position of contact, just ask! smile...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Valerie Sutton</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:Sutton@SignWriting.org">Sutton@SignWriting.org</A></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>1. 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