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Congratulations Valerie. What a feeling of gratitude it must be for you knowing a big job done.<div>where you able to sleep after 2:00 a.m.?</div><div><br></div><div>And Stefan what a beautiful photo of that flower. Are you still able to garden? </div><div>Thinking of you both and the list often. I hope to get back at it some day. Sign Writing is still one of my favorite occupation. </div><div><br></div><div>soon I have to teach a mother who's grandchild is born deaf, I am looking forward to that.</div><div><br></div><div>Love and Blessings to you all,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Tini.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 7-Sep-08, at 2:20 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div class="Section1"><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">Hello Valerie, and sw-listers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt">wow what an excellent achievement. You must be so proud of your "baby" - smile - I bet that not too many people can estimate how much of your time, energy, creativity, knowledge and discipline has been necessary to accomplish this vision. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt">The good point is that know all over the world people can refer to symbols in order to describe any given SL performance. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt">What will be helpfull in the long run is a 1 to 1 graphic - foto or description to symbol. I felt so excited and I looked at all the pages and symbols in the document you shared for download. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt">Just allow one funny comment - can you perform this eye-movement opening and closing alternating ? – smile - <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><span><image001.jpg></span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt">I created a special “Thank you” - greeting card keeping in mind that September 4<sup>th</sup> has been a “beautiful day” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt">All the best <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt">Stefan ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----<br> Von: sw-l-bounces@majordomo.valenciacc.edu [<a href="mailto:sw-l-bounces@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">mailto:sw-l-bounces@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a>] Im Auftrag von Valerie Sutton<br> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. September 2008 22:39<br> An: SignWriting List<br> Betreff: [sw-l] International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA) in finished ; -)</span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">SignWriting List<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">September 4, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">Dear SignWriting List:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">Today, Sept. 4, 2008, I finalized the International SignWriting <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">Alphabet (ISWA 2008).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">It has been a labor of love on my part for several years, and all this <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">year, in 2008, I have been working on it steadily. There are so many <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">variations of sizes and nuances of symbols when writing SignWriting by <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">hand, and it has been difficult, to capture all of those nuances in <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">computers all these years. The ISWA is our best attempt to date.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">Although there can always be another handshape here and there, needed <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">at a later date, generally I feel that the ISWA 2008 is a far better <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">symbolset that the currently used IMWA, and I am so happy that shortly <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">the ISWA will be available for use.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">Right now, Steve is still developing the new software. I completed the <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">ISWA at 2:00 this morning. Steve will help me check it for any <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">conversion issues, although I doubt there will be any problems, since <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">it has been converting beautifully all along...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">Now I am writing documentation teaching the ISWA. Attached is Chapter <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">2 from the new ISWA Manual I am writing now, which has not been posted <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">on the web yet.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">Chapter 2 shows the 30 Symbol Groups of the ISWA (the visual mapping):<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> <span><image001.jpg></span><span><beautiful day Sept 4 2008 .jpg></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">____________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SW-L SignWriting List</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Post Message</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">List Archives and Help</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Change Email Settings</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>