<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>February 22, 2008</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Hello Stefan!</div><div>As always, you are so eloquent and amazing...Thank you for remembering my birthday, which I forget most of the time!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I have vowed I must start a "Birthday calendar" so I can remember all of your birthdays too...I have never done that, but I need to try...</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I think it would be a great idea to write the Birthday Song in different signed languages...let's start with in ASL...I am not sure how to write it in ASL properly...can someone write the Birthday Song for us in ASL and send it to the List?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I am very blessed to have met you and everyone on this List and all those who write signs and movement...and everyone who expresses love and support... and my wonderful family, who have all called me from Florida and North Carolina today...It has been a busy morning!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>And truthfully...the good news is the success that your students are having, Stefan, that is the best gift of all...thank you for telling us this:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Stefan wrote:</div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; ">My students develop excellent SW reading skills. This is a wonderful support to develop a higher level in reading and writing spoken language.</span></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I am so glad to know this!! Please send my very best wishes to your students!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>And THANK YOU for this glorious card...As always, your photos and beautiful True Type fonts for SignWriting are totally fantastic! I will place this card on the web in our Birthday Cards section ;-))</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Val</div><div>born 1951 ;-))</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div><img height="425" width="738" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:96595F83-99AA-42FC-8801-E3483532C20C"></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; 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: 0; "><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Dear Valerie and sw-list members,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><h3 style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; ">let us meet in cyberspace to hand out a paper showing the SignWriting transcription of some popular birthday songs – must be a wonderful chorus with all the people of different age, culture, background –This is what Valerie had in mind when she started to invent a movement – writing system ...not tied to any one culture or any one language...<br>...recording hundreds of languages, bringing cultures together...<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Would be an interesting project to write a little booklet with signed birthday songs in all the different Sign Languages that are already in touch with your wonderful invention<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Hi Valerie time for you to have a break and to accept hundreds of birthday wishes...<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">At least I would like to express my respect and gratefulness for your never ending patience with newcomers and interested “want – to – become –SignWriting –scribes!”<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">In the past I learned so much from you that allowed me to achieve a higher level in teaching deaf children. My students develop excellent SW reading skills. This is a wonderful support to develop a higher level in reading and writing spoken language.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Happy birthday to you! Have a super day. Keep strong and take care<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Stefan ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><span><happy birthday Valerie 2008.jpg></span></div><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br><br>List Archives and Help<br><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/</a><br><br>Change Email Settings<br><a href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div><br><br></body></html>