<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>September 3, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 3, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Lucyna Dlugolecka wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><FONT size="2">During one workshop there were an exciting discussion about writing signs. The students noticed that the Deaf sign the same signs differently. For example, the sign for HEARING is signed with the index finger bent or straight. The students argued there should be special rules established so that each sign has one signed and written version. I didn't agree but that all were new to them and the students (especially the beginners) could not understand that there were so many variation of a PJM sign.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Hello Lucyna!</DIV><DIV>Thanks for this excellent report. I am so amazed and happy about this! It would be nice to post your report about the Symposium on our web site later, with your permission ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>.... And also, your report in this message, about the camp in Slovakia, is excellent, and if you want to prepare it for a web posting, I could also post this information about your camp in Slovakia. It is my understanding that Slovakia is neither Poland nor the Czech Republic, so do I need to start a new country web area for Slovakian Sign Language?..smile...Or we could post your report on the Czech or Polish sites...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Is Slovakian Sign Language a separate Sign Language from Czech Sign Language?...smile...I bet it is! Maybe someday we will need a Slovakian SignPuddle...Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:06413A40-8165-4047-91E7-DEEC051BE63A@local"></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>