<div>My seconds to all on this list. My name is Charles Butler and I give my own personal gratitude to Valerie Sutton who has worked with programmers throughout the years to make this system available to everyone.</div> <div> </div> <div>1) I was priveleged to represent Sign Writing and Dance Writing at a symposium in New York City when Valerie was not able to attend a conference more than 20 years ago. With our little Apple-II-e program we were able to wow the socks off the people at the conference. All of their systems were based on labanotation, which can show intensity of movement, and specific kinds of choreography, but nothing as flexible as Dance Writing or as immediately accessible as even the Apple-II-e program was. </div> <div> </div> <div>With that program (the precursor to the SignWriter program) one could type sign, type English (or Danish), change that English with a swipe of a key to fingerspelling, and show piece by piece a
comparative grammar between English Roman letters and ASL signs....and that was many years ago. I miss that little program. </div> <div> </div> <div>2) Since then I have traveled to Brazil (Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Florianopolis, and Pelotas), and seen SW in action and being widely accepted for everyday use. My hope and dream is to see it used with the TISLR conferences to show how much easier linguistic concepts can be shown when one has a clear graphic representation of movement. One can say in five words and a picture what now takes 150 words and still isn't clear. </div> <div> </div> <div>3) I am overwhelmed with Valerie's generosity, and Steve's persistence in getting this symbol set into a workable set of principles for Sign Writing so that we can truly start creating comparative dictionaries, stories, newspaper articles, and other expressions in the living signed languages of the world.</div> <div> </div> <div>4) Valerie
is truly a living Sequoia, bringing living languages into print in a way that will go into history. We are all ripples in her pond. </div> <div> </div> <div>Charles Butler Neto</div> <div>-sometime of the SignNet Project in Porto Alegre & Pelotas Brazil</div> <div>-currently working on creating the Sign Writing Linguistic Society (a dream for now)</div> <div>-contributor to the SW Wikipedia project</div> <div>-founding member of the Silent Heralds (interpreters for the Society for Creative Anachronism). </div> <div> </div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Adam Frost <icemandeaf@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV>I have to agree with you. Both Val and Steve have done a lot for us and billions of people now and many more to come. Words of gratitude are not enough. </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Adam<BR><BR>On Oct 21, 2008, at 10:36 PM,
"mohammed abushaira" <<A href="mailto:m_abushaira@yahoo.com">m_abushaira@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Hello Val & Steve</DIV><PRE><SPAN> </SPAN>Great done. I wish you very happy life with your creative <TT>ISWA 2008.and god blesses you for these long years of hard continuously work ><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></TT></PRE><PRE><TT>In fact words can not give what you deserve because you deserve more.<o:p></o:p></TT></PRE><PRE><TT>You'll be mention as great people who come to this planet and when he left it he left a sign , effect !<o:p></o:p></TT></PRE><PRE><TT>Thanks <o:p></o:p></TT></PRE><TT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Mohamed <SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></TT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New
Roman'"><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> <IMG src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/01.gif"></SPAN></SPAN><BR><BR><B><I><A href="mailto:sw-l-request@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">sw-l-request@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</A></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">Send SW-L mailing list submissions to<BR><A href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu"><A href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu</A></A><BR><BR>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<BR><A href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l"><A href="http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l">http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l</A></A><BR>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<BR><A href="mailto:sw-l-request@majordomo.valenciacc.edu"><A
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Steve, for your message below. Thank you for the kind <BR>words. And thank you for collaborating with me, to make this historic <BR>moment possible.<BR><BR>There are two big announcements today.<BR><BR>FIRST...The International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA 2008) is official!<BR><BR>The ISWA became the official symbolset for SignWriting around the <BR>world, yesterday, October 20, 2008!<BR><BR>The ISWA is now installed in all SignPuddle software products. I will <BR>be reviewing all the SignPuddle products here on the SignWriting List <BR>over the next few days...<BR><BR>The free online version of SignPuddle is used daily by hundreds of <BR>sign language users.<BR><BR>When you use SignPuddle Online, you are using the ISWA 2008 symbols:<BR><BR>SignPuddle Online<BR><A href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle</A><BR><BR>Most of you may not realize that you are using the ISWA, but you are. <BR>Whenever you use SignPuddle Online, it is there for
you, in SignMaker <BR>and SignText.<BR><BR>The ISWA is the culmination of my 35 years developing SignWriting. As <BR>you know, the first SignWriting document ever written was in 1974 at <BR>the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. SignWriting became my life's <BR>work from that moment on, and will be for the rest of my life.<BR><BR>Without all of the wonderful SignWriting users around the world, of <BR>course SignWriting could not be what it is today....so THANK YOU to <BR>all of you, for your feedback and your use of the writing <BR>system...Your input has made the ISWA 2008 possible too.<BR><BR>I hope my gift of the ISWA to the world will be useful for generations <BR>to come...<BR><BR>I will announce the second announcement next message...it is new <BR>software for your desktop, called the PersonalPuddle.<BR><BR>Thank you once again, Steve, for your remarkable software that made <BR>the ISWA 2008 official!<BR><BR>Val ;-)<BR><BR>Valerie
Sutton<BR>Sutton@SignWriting.org<BR><BR>---------------<BR><BR><BR>On Oct 21, 2008, at 8:33 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:<BR><BR>> Hi list,<BR>><BR>> The review period for the ISWA 2008 ended successfully yesterday. <BR>> Valerie will be announcing that the ISWA is final, as in finally <BR>> done and finished. There has been a lot of work on this latest <BR>> symbol set. I'm proud of the work that we've done together.<BR>><BR>> This could be the final symbol set for SignWriting. If not forever, <BR>> then at least the next few years. With the new character encoding <BR>> model, this may be the symbol set that will be used with Unicode, <BR>> but that's a different story.<BR>><BR>> SignPuddle Online already uses the ISWA 2008. Just last week I <BR>> finished a new desktop version of the PocketPuddle called the <BR>> PersonalPuddle for Windows and Mac. The installation has been <BR>> greatly simplified: just unzip and start the
application. It works <BR>> the same as SignPuddle Online, except it doesn't require an Internet <BR>> connection. With the new SignPuddle export function, it is possible <BR>> to get a local copy of any of the online puddles to use offline at <BR>> any time.<BR>><BR>> The PersonalPuddle is available for $100, the same price as the <BR>> PocketPuddle. Except for the rest of this month, the price has been <BR>> cut in half to $50 to celebrate the release of the ISWA 2008 Final.<BR>><BR>> For the PocketPuddle users, they will be offered the PersonalPuddle <BR>> at not cost. They can contact me directly if they would like help <BR>> converting their existing IMWA data over to the ISWA.<BR>><BR>> I am finishing the IMWA Conversion document and code. It will be <BR>> ready in the next couple of days.<BR>><BR>> Let's all congratulate Valerie on her amazing work. This is a <BR>> historic day and I'm glad I was a
part.<BR>><BR>> Regards,<BR>> -Steve<BR><BR>From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton@signwriting.org><BR>To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu><BR>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:31:00 -0700<BR>Subject: [sw-l] ANNOUNCING A NEW PUDDLE PRODUCT!<BR><BR>SignWriting List<BR>October 21, 2008<BR><BR>NEW SPECIAL FEATURE on SignWriting.org!<BR><BR>Go to:<BR>http://www.SignWriting.org<BR><BR><BR>ANNOUNCING A NEW PUDDLE PRODUCT<BR><BR>The PersonalPuddle: SignPuddle Desktop Software<BR>Write Sign Languages in SignWriting<BR>...directly on your computer desktop...<BR>...with or without an internet connection...<BR><BR>For Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger & 10.5 Leopard.<BR>For Windows 95 through Vista.<BR>Linux version possible.<BR><BR>You can download the software directly, or request a CD Package sent <BR>through postal mail.<BR><BR>SPECIAL OFFER: In celebration of the new International SignWriting <BR>Alphabet (ISWA 2008), which became the official SignWriting symbolset
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