Easy once you get the hang of it.<br><br>Charles<br><br><br><b><i>Adam Frost <icemandeaf@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> That was the reason for my post. There are still people who write by <br>hand even with just learning now. And about the "predictions", they <br>are really just excuses. ;-)<br><br>Adam<br><br>On Dec 9, 2008, at 1:57 PM, "Valerie Sutton" <sutton@signwriting.org> <br>wrote:<br><br>> SignWriting List<br>> December 9, 2008<br>><br>> On Dec 9, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Adam Frost wrote:<br>>> I think that this discussion has been very interesting. Mainly <br>>> because my sister and brother-in-law have been using SignWriting <br>>> more and more. In fact, my brother-in-law just showed me a hand <br>>> written collage of writings in which he is practicing. He had <br>>> called me on the video phone to see if
he was writing signs <br>>> correctly. He also showed me a hand written note from my sister to <br>>> him. They are both at the stage in learning where they look up the <br>>> words in the dictionary, which is quite normal for beginning. As I <br>>> was writing this, my brother-in-law called me back to ask me how to <br>>> write a sign that was not in the dictionary. He had some <br>>> difficulty, but he will get the hang of it. I just think it is <br>>> interesting he is mostly writing by hand, which is what we have <br>>> been talking about.<br>><br>> This is wonderful, Adam! Your family members and friends are welcome <br>> to join the SignWriting List...and I created a Mexican Literature <br>> Puddle for them too...<br>><br>> But I want to share with you a funny irony...<br>><br>> SignWriting will be 35 years old in 2009.<br>><br>> In the first decade of SignWriting, from 1974-1984,
there was ONLY <br>> writing by hand. There was nothing else. We developed the Shorthand <br>> in 1981-1984 too, and people said to me that SignWriting would still <br>> fail because "it can never be written by machine"...<br>><br>> Then, in the second and third decades, we worked and focused on <br>> developing "machines to write SignWriting", and now we have <br>> accomplished that in different ways, to such an extent, that new <br>> students oftentimes learn on computers without learning to write by <br>> hand first. Now, according to Stuart, we are told that SignWriting <br>> will fail because "it cannot be written by hand?"...smile... <br>> or..."it cannot be written by hand fast enough"...<br>><br>> and all those predictions of failure have ALWAYS been <br>> false...SignWriting is still here, 35 years later, and we have BOTH <br>> writing by machine and writing by hand...it is a matter of choice <br>> and
education...<br>><br>> Your brother-in-law is learning SignWriting by writing by hand, and <br>> that is the way the writing system started...<br>><br>> Val ;-)<br>><br>><br>><br>> ____________________________________________<br>><br>> SW-L SignWriting List<br>><br>> Post Message<br>> SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>><br>> List Archives and Help<br>> http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/<br>><br>> Change Email Settings<br>> http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l<br>><br><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br>SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br><br>List Archives and Help<br>http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/<br><br>Change Email Settings<br>http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l<br><br></sutton@signwriting.org></blockquote><br>