<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I personally like the drag and drop.
I tried to learn SW back when it was SW DOS, and gave up, as I couldn't
learn the keyboard and find the symbols. I also like to be able to
place the symbols in relation to each other in drag and drop... I don't
think you could do that with a keyboard system-- Granted it isn't
really quick enough to be viable as a writing system for me, yet, but Val
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> I just did my first real try at
handwriting, and am quite pleased with the results. Its excellent
for planning out what I will be doing in a 'performance'. (I will
be signing/interpreting the Twelve Days of Christmas for a program tomorrow,
and wanted to be able to have a cheat sheet on hand to practice with...)</font>
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<br><font size=3>Yes, please, I second that!<br>
There's a lot to like about drag and drop ... but as a touch-typist myself,
drag-and-drop does not feel like "writing" when I want to put
something directly from my head into a document.<br>
Hope your time in Brazil is going excellently, Charles!<br>
Sounds like great things going on there.<br>
-- Kim from Boston<br>
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<br><font size=3>On 12/12/06, <b>Charles Butler</b> <</font><a href=mailto:chazzer3332000@yahoo.com><font size=3 color=blue><u>chazzer3332000@yahoo.com</u></font></a><font size=3>>
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<br><font size=3>I really am looking forward to the day that we are back
to a typing rather than a drag and drop system for Sign Writing. Drag
and drop takes forever, and typing with specific sequences helps one to
memorize the system much better. I know that the DOS system and Windows
98 are no longer supported but they really could do a lot of things well,
even though they didnīt save into SignBank or IMWA. </font>
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<br><font size=3>Just my opinion (I have been a speed typist since I was
14) as I would like to be able to duplicate that speed in sign writing,
which would show a distinct advantage in showing the applicability of an
equivalent system for reproduction as typing is to spoken language.</font>
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<br><font size=3>SignWriting List<br>
December 12, 2006<br>
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On Dec 12, 2006, a question from a SignPuddle user:<br>
> I tried to find just plain Square symbol but i cannot find it ...
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> all square symbols have lines attached it ... i just want a plain
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> square because it is fist hand...<br>
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Thank you for your question. You looked in the correct place. The <br>
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