<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>August 21, 2008</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Ingvild!</div><div>It is so great to be in touch again. I hope you have had a great summer....I have! ;-))</div><div><br></div><div>And yes, of course, when the new ISWA is released officially it will be accompanied by instruction. I am writing several manuals on the ISWA, including some new web areas. They are only partially done. That is what Jonathan was referring to....he found this web area:</div><div><br></div><div><b>SignWriting Symbol Lessons</b></div><div>International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA</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/video/lessons/iswa">http://www.signwriting.org/video/lessons/iswa</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;">As you can see, Adam Frost is creating some wonderful animated GIFs that show the symbol side by side with the photograph of the handshape, moving from palm facing to palm facing...</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;">But we have barely started...and the actual ISWA will not be released for at least a month...so when that times comes I hope to be prepared with the documents to support it...</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;">I am also doing a re-design of SymbolBank for the ISWA:</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;">SymbolBank</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><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.movementwriting.org/symbolbank/">http://www.movementwriting.org/symbolbank/</a></span></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" 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 I would feel very fortunate indeed if you have the time to translate the materials into Norwegian...We could even create some Norwegian web areas that mirror the English one...</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;">So there is work ahead of us...But one thing that is good...the ISWA is an improvement over the IMWA...and I suspect we will be using the ISWA in a stable fashion for decades to come...so the instruction materials we create will really be used over a long period of time...</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;">Thanks for your unending support -</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;">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" 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;">------------------</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 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div><div>On Aug 21, 2008, at 2:50 AM, Ingvild Roald 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 class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Such descriptions would be useful. Then may there be a option for us to translate the descriptions into other languages than English? We of other countries would do his work, of course<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Ingvild<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><br><hr>Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:13:39 +0200<br>From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:duncanjonathan@yahoo.ca">duncanjonathan@yahoo.ca</a><br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br>Subject: [sw-l] Group descriptions<br><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Hi Val,<br> I was wondering if the descriptions for the groups in the ISWA-2008 are available anywhere on the website yet. I have been looking for it but only found<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><a class="EC_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/swis/data.php?subset=&bs_code=*" target="_blank">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/swis/data.php?subset=&bs_code=*</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>but it doesn't have the descriptions and <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="EC_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.signwriting.org/video/lessons/iswa/group01/" target="_blank">http://www.signwriting.org/video/lessons/iswa/group01/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>but it isnīt complete for all of the groups in the ISWA just the first ones.<br><br>I am looking for something like<br></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><font size="1">01-01-001-01</font></font> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Index Tight Fist<br></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><font size="1">01-01-002-01</font></font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Index Open Fist<br></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><font size="1">01-01-003-01</font></font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Index Cup Base<br><br>But for all of the groups.<br><br>I understand that you are still putting the last touches to the ISWA and want to let you know that I am very grateful for all the hard work you and Steve have put into the symbols, I was looking at them the other day as I imported the ones that had come with the SWIS into my program and I like them a lot better than the IMWA. I'm that they will contribute to easier reading.<br><br>If there is anything I can do to help with getting the group descriptions together, let me know.<br><br>Jonathan<br><br></font><br><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a><br><br>List Archives and Help<br><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/</a><br><br>Change Email Settings<br><a href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>