<div>Hi Sergio,</div> <div> </div> <div>My main objection to video, CDrom, DVD, etc, is that all of them can be damaged and all require technology. SW does not. It requires a brain, and could be drawn on the ground or in the sand if you don't have a pencil. It is true independence for a user of sign language to communicate one's thoughts on paper in a way that will endure. A book endures, a video tape can be erased, a magnetic storm can destroy a DVD, if you can't get power on or your battery dies, all of your videos can't be read, but SW is like Heiroglyphics, you can still read the sign language decades later.</div> <div> </div> <div>Charles Butler</div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Sergio Ribeiro <escritadesinais@yahoo.com.br></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content=Word.Document name=ProgId> <META content="Microsoft Word 10" name=Generator>
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size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">I am writing article about signwriting use in deaf class, this article will be to the new Magazine. But here in Brazil many peoples, teacher and linguistics, disagree if writing sign languages is really important or necessary, because today we have another medias like DVD, CD-ROM, etc, using video format. What you think about and Deaf members of DAC have what point of view ?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">I want to write this more specific is possible !<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial
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