Ok. That helps me understand what Mundbildschrift is. I could possibly be called Speech Writing. :-) So what I was thinking is called Mundbild, or maybe called in English Mouth Writing or Lip Writing. Your explanation helps a lot. Thanks. :-)
<br><br>Adam<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stefan Wöhrmann</b> <<a href="mailto:stefanwoehrmann@gebaerdenschrift.de">stefanwoehrmann@gebaerdenschrift.de</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Adam, Valerie and friends -<br><br>- hm - what makes things so difficult is the fact that we are dealing with
<br>completely different writing systems -<br><br><br>Mundbildschrift is a system on its own! It describes what you hear!!!! while<br>a person is speaking!<br><br>So Mundbildschrift is a system that is not appropriate for any Signlanguage
<br>performance.<br><br>ok?<br><br>At best you may want to compare Mundbildschrift with the IPA - the<br>difference is that I defined the Mundbilder hat go along with a given sound<br>of a Spoken Language.<br><br><br>What you are thinking of - is what I call Mundbilder in GebaerdenSchrift.
<br><br>I was told that true deaf story telling style would be performed at its best<br>without any loans from the spoken language. But SignWriting as a special<br>branch of movement writing taught me something different. Obviously there
<br>are quite a number of SL in the world where some kind of loudless/voiceless<br>mouthing happens ...<br><br>What I did was to accept this! Next step has been to make up standards: So I<br>startet to take some of the facial expressions for mouth movements that had
<br>been created by Valerie for different purposes -<br>For the German branch of SignWriting I can tell that the high amount of<br>Mundbilder makes the difference to GebaerdenSchrift.<br><br>Now again I defined some mouth movements - going along with possible options
<br>for speaking -but without any sound! And this leads to all the problems that<br>are to be kept in mind with lipreading.<br><br>Just imagine to take a series of fotos while somebody is speaking. What do<br>you get? - You get a series of fotos with stills of different lip, mouth or
<br>tongue representations. No imagine you try to guess and write down all<br>different possible and meaningfull options ...<br><br>So it would no make sense to define a closed mouth as anything else but "M"<br>
in the first place but perhaps "P" or "B" as well -<br><br>and so forth<br>It is as Valerie already said - as a teacher of deaf children I am looking<br>for any tool that allows them to become smart ... smile ... and definitely
<br>SignWriting or Gebaerdenschrift with the many Mundbilder is a "must" ...<br><br>.. And no - I do not prefer vertical writing in my documents - so writing<br>the Mundbilder in vertical would not be my problem ...
<br><br>.... and .. we did some experiments with writing Mundbilder without facial<br>circles -- it did not work. The best way for us is to allow the facial<br>circels overlap a little bit to indicate that the flow of mouth, lip and
<br>tonguemovents is just represented in a sequence of artificial created<br>stills. All what matters is to allow a very quick and meaningfull reading of<br>the documents or single signs ...<br><br>Hope this helps?<br>Stefan ;-)
<br><br><br><br><br>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----<br>Von: <a href="mailto:owner-sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">owner-sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:owner-sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">owner-sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu
</a>] Im Auftrag von Adam Frost<br>Gesendet: Samstag, 12. Mai 2007 18:12<br>An: <a href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br>Betreff: [sw-l] Vertical Mundbildschrift (?)<br><br>I am guessing that Mundbildschrift means something like mouth movements. If
<br>I am right, then this is something on my list to get aquired knowledged of.<br>ASL also have very important adverbs that are on the mouth.<br><br>Adam<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: "Sandy Fleming" <
<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a>><br>Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 16:38:19<br><a href="mailto:To:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">To:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br>Subject: Re: [sw-l] SVG version of our IMWA symbols
<br><br>On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 08:21 -0700, Charles Butler wrote:<br>> Sandy, Valerie, and others.<br><br>> The only drawback I see is the Gaebardenschrift methodology for<br>> full-mouth articulation as a multiple overlapping head would not
<br>> easily be possible using this method.<br><br>Charles, Val, Stefan,<br><br>As you all know, SignWriting was originally written horizontally, but<br>vertical SignWriting is now preferred. Fingerspelling seems to be going
<br>the same way, with a recent suggestion of vertical fingerspelling on the<br>list finding approval. After all, once you decide to write vertically,<br>anything that's written horizontally within the column is "going against
<br>the grain" and it should come as no surprise that writing it vertically<br>is an improvement.<br><br>I would suggest that Mundbildschrift could also better be written<br>vertically within vertical SignWriting (see attached diagram and excuse
<br>the badly-drawn mouths!).<br><br>As I've said before, I prefer faces to be opaque so that any background<br>doesn't render the expression difficult to read. This seems to work very<br>well with vertical Mundbildschrift, as the head circle doesn't interfere
<br>with any other part of the facial expression and, after the intial<br>expression which might contain eyes and nose, only the mouthings are<br>shown.<br><br>I understand that horizontal Mundbildschrift my be preferred in
<br>educational texts aimed at helping Deaf children who are learning to<br>write in an oral language, but for normal SignWriting texts for everyday<br>readers, this seems to me to be a very clear, natural and compact way to
<br>write Mundbildshrift, and no problems with it going against the grain<br>and right out of the column!<br><br>To me, MUndbildschrift isn't just an education concern, it's also<br>important for everyday SignWriting to show "native" sign language lip
<br>patterns (such as the "po", "vee", "lum" &c of BSL).<br><br>Any thoughts?<br><br>Sandy<br><br><br><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>