<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>September 4, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV> Lucyna Dlugolecka wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><FONT size="2">After the meetings in Brussels and Oscadnica, Slovakia I realized there are many errors in the Polish SignPuddle and now I want to do some corrections. Antarktyda is the case I have doubts about. Can you read it?</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Hello Lucyna and Everyone!</DIV><DIV>I am so happy that you are posting signs for us to read...Thank you! And I hope others will too...Questions are always welcome ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My lessons are not perfect. There are so many new symbols in the IMWA that have not been documented well. And there are also SignSpelling Rules that were established back in the 1980's, with the skilled signwriters of our Deaf Action Committee (DAC), that never got documented properly too....</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So this is a great help to me...because as I explain why we write this way or that way, I can hopefully also prepare E-Lessons on the web that will document the discussion...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And there is nothing to worry about...Because you write very well, Lucyna...These are details that are necessary to learn, but over time, they become clear anyway...smile...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So I would write your sign differently based on a SignSpelling rule called "Always Write The Position of Contact"....</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>E-Lesson</DIV><DIV>Always Write The Position of Contact</DIV><DIV><A href="http://signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less063.html">http://signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less063.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Let me prepare a lesson based on this, and I will post it to the List next message...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>