<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>September 21, 2008</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Sep 21, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:</div><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="blue" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Hi Val,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">your description is perfect –</span></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">the third group -</span></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">3. Sign Language mouth movements based on grammar....what is that in German?<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">the third group </span></font><span lang="EN-GB">is called Mundgestik<br></span></span></o:p></span></font></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>--------</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Stefan and Maria!</div><div><br></div><div>OK. So here is the terminology so we can understand each other:</div><div><br></div><div>German.................................English</div><div><br></div><div>Mundbildschrift.....................Woehrmann's SpeechWriting</div><div><br></div><div>Mundbilder............................Mouthing</div><div><br></div><div>Mundgestik...........................Sign Language Grammatical Mouth Movements</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>In English, we cannot call the third group "mime" or "mimic"....that would only confuse English speakers. Mime or mimic, for me anyway, means the classic pantomime performed on stage by mime artists, such as the late great Marcel Marceau...And the term mime or mimic is not just mouth movements...it means mime and gesture of the whole body in English, in my understanding of English, anyway...</div><div><br></div><div>I do not know any other English term other than Sign Language Grammatical Mouth Movements....</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone else know an English term that means the same? It would be great to know a shorter description like they have in German!</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>