<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>February 20, 2008</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Hello Chris and Cristina!</div><div>Thanks to you both for these messages. It is great to know that Joe Martin's papers are being downloaded and read! </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>And I will be happy to post and link to your paper, Cristina, on the same web page:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><b>SignWriting Linguistics Forum</b></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/linguistics">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/linguistics</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">I will work on that web posting and I will write again when it is posted...</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Thank you for informing us...</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Val ;-)</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:46 PM, Chris Cox wrote:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; ">Dear Val and Joe,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1px; ">Thank you both for making these works availabale – I am sure they will play a valuable part in the detail we will need to raise the funds necessary to support the set up of family SW learning groups here in the UK and hopefully also in South Eastern Ireland.</span></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1px; ">Best regards</span></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1px; ">Chris</span></o:p></span></font></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div>--------------</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>On Feb 19, 2008, at 2:56 AM, Mª Cristina P. Pereira wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">To improve SW texts on the web: there is a paper about SW (Brazilian Portuguese<br>only)that I wrote 2 years ago entitled "Signwriting system as a possibility in<br>Deaf People literacy". I discuss why writing is an important empowerment tool<br>to the deaf community and how prejudices (against a writing form) are a common<br>false idea among groups who have not a writing system of their own (some indians groups, deaf,...). I compare some<br>sign writing systems (thanks to Joe Martin's texts on the SW web) and suggest<br>that SW is the writing code more adequate to register a<br>signed language in an everyday bases.<br><br>Available:<br><a href="http://br.geocities.com/macripiper/linguisticils.htm">http://br.geocities.com/macripiper/linguisticils.htm</a> (at the bottom of the<br>page) or directly<br><a href="http://br.geocities.com/macripiper/2006Celsul.pdf">http://br.geocities.com/macripiper/2006Celsul.pdf</a><br><br>Hope it helps Portuguese and, maybe, Spanish readers.<br><br>--- Sutton Valerie <sutton@signwriting.org> escreveu:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I am happy to announce a new web posting: Joe Martin's Masters Degree Thesis<br></blockquote><br><br>========================================================================<br>Mª Cristina P. Pereira (Porto Alegre - RS - Brasil), http://br.geocities.com/macripiper</blockquote></div></body></html>