<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">SignWriting List</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">May 21, 2008</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">Hello Ingvild!</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">Thanks for this message....This event mentioned below is related to the Scott Liddell and Robert Johnson system from the 1980's...it is a linguistically-based notation system ...nothing like SignWriting and could not be used for writing Sign Language Literature..it is not a true writing system for daily use...I met the inventors years ago....when I taught a workshop on SignWriting at Gallaudet University in 1984, I had lunch with Scott Lilddell and Bob Johnson...they teach linguistics at the Linguistics dept at Gallaudet ...at least they did at the time...and it is not like the Stokoe system either...a different system...It does not have the same purpose as SignWriting, but it would be fun to have some SignWriting participants at their meeting - </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">For those new on our List, SignWriting is used as a linguistic notation system too, but it was developed mostly for everyday use as a real daily writing system for signers...so we can write stories and books in written signed languages, written by the users of the languages, and not just for research or specific linguistic projects...SignWriting incorporates writing facial expressions and body movement and more important features that make it possible to write storytelling and write directly in the movements of signed languages...</font></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="Geneva" 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" face="Geneva" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Thanks for the posting, Ingvild!</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="Geneva" 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" face="Geneva" 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="Geneva" 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" face="Geneva" 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="Geneva" 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" face="Geneva" 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" face="Geneva" 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" face="Geneva" 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" face="Geneva" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div></div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">On May 21, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Ingvild Roald wrote:</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: 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 marginleft="10" marginright="10" margintop="0" marginbottom="0" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"> If anyone in Europe, or elsewhere, who knows SignWriting and are into sign lingustics would attend, I think that would be useful. The topics are certainly of interest, the notation system used I don't know about ... Seems as if Someone at Gallaudet are reinventing the weel.</font></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><br></font><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">Ingvild, Norway (not myself well enough to attend, otherwise I would)</font></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><br><br><br></font><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">Hello all,</font></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><br></font><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">We are pleased to inform you that Johnson's seminar in Paris-11 from</font></font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">June 9 to 12 will be entirely accessible in British Sign Language.</font></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><br></font><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">For more information go to:</font></font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"> </font><a href="http://perso.limsi.fr/filhol/bob-seminar" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">http://perso.limsi.fr/filhol/bob-seminar</font></a></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><br></font><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">See you there maybe.</font></font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">Best regards,</font></font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">Michael Filhol.</font></font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">_______________________________________________</font></font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">SLLING-L mailing list</font></font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="mailto:SLLING-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">SLLING-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</font></a></font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/slling-l" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/slling-l</font></a></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><br><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br></font><a href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><br><br>List Archives and Help<br></font><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><br><br>Change Email Settings<br></font><a href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</font></a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div><br><br></body></html>