<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>September 25, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello Lucyna and Everyone!</DIV><DIV>What a wonderful report from Warsaw, Poland...I am so happy to read about this...Thank you for informing us and congratulations!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ouch! Falling down on the floor can hurt (smile), but the movements of falling and landing on the floor and getting up again can all be written in Movement Writing!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Maybe it would be fun to write that and give it to your professor...we could even write the dialogue of two people falling and helping each other up - ha!</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 class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Lucyna Dlugolecka from Poland wrote:</FONT></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -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><FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">I would like to report on a PJM and SW lesson held by Romuald Szurik and me as part of the Science Festival of Warsaw. The event is organized every year by all the Warsaw universities and its purpose is to share the knowledge with so called ordinary people in the street. Our Computer Linguistics Unit of the University of Warsaw prepared three lessons:</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">1. Silent Foreigners Among Us: The Deaf, Their History, Language(s) and Culture (by Prof. Marek Swidzinski, linguist)</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">2. How to "speak" Sign Langauage(s) (by Romuald Szurik and me)</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">3. Sign to me! Sign2Baby System (by Danuta Mikulska).</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT></FONT> </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">It went all good, the lecture room was full of audience and even the press recorded the lessons. And there was a funny point, as after all the lessons the professor wanted to hug me and we both fell down onto the floor! Yeah, Shane was right when he said I was never short of drama :-))).</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT></FONT> </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">But we are happy now as it was the first time that ordinary people learned (from us or from the press) that PJM is a true langauge and that SignWriting exists :-).</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT></FONT> </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Lucy</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT><A href="mailto:deafie@gmx.net"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="-khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">deafie@gmx.net</FONT></SPAN></A></FONT></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>