<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>May 8, 2008</div><div><br><div><div>On May 8, 2008, at 3:22 PM, aia07r wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div id="messagebody"><div class="message-part"><p class="MsoNormal"><span><strong>Dear Mrs. Sutton, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Thank you for taking the time to read my email. As you know, some notation systems did not develop a non-manual component (such as head movement, eyes, shoulders, etc.). I have a few questions about Sutton SignWriting that I hope you can answer.<span> </span>How many articulating parts does Sutton include, and what are they?<span> </span>Also, does Sutton consider most of the possible movement for each part?<span> Thank you for your help and for taking the time to answer my questions. Best regards, abdulaziz Almohimeed</span></span></strong></span></p></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Hello Abdulaziz Almohimeed!</div><div><br></div><div>Welcome to the SignWriting List. And thank you for your questions...It may take several questions and answers, since this is such a big subject, so keep asking all you need to know, here on the SignWriting List...</div><div><br></div><div>SignWriting is the only notation system for signed languages designed to be a daily writing system for all signed languages, making it possible to write and publish Sign Language Literature, writing the facial expressions, head movement, eyegaze, shoulders, hips, chest and even mime and gesture...SignWriting can write it all, and can be as detailed or as simplified as the writer chooses...It can be written by hand or documents can be created by computer in SignPuddle Online:</div><div><br></div><div><b>SignPuddle Online</b></div><div><a href="http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle">http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle</a></div><div><br></div><div>In fact, if we have to write slapping the foot, in a South Pacific Sign Language, that can be written too... That is because SignWriting originally stemmed from Sutton Movement Writing, a general movement notation system:</div><div><br></div><div><b>Sutton Movement Writing</b></div><div><a href="http://www.MovementWriting.org">http://www.MovementWriting.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>As signers wrote their signed languages, SignWriting evolved into what it is today...</div><div><br></div><div>There is written Sign Language Literature Online...take a look atL</div><div><br></div><div><b>Cat in the Hat</b></div><div><a href="http://www.SignWriting.org/library/children">http://www.SignWriting.org/library/children</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Regarding Facial Expressions...</b></div><div><br></div><div>Why don't we start here:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Go to:</div><div><br></div><div><b>Lessons in SignWriting Textbook on the web:</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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/lessonsw/lessonsweb.html">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/lessonsw/lessonsweb.html</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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">and click on...</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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Chapter 10: Facial Expressions</b></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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">It goes for pages and pages of Facial Expressions, which includes Eyegaze. Here are the Eyegaze symbols, for example:</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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><div><img height="664" width="450" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:6FBD9C58-2A76-486F-9F7E-E4BD63891D9F"></div></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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>