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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#ffff00 size=6>Hi Val and
everyone,</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#ffff00 size=6> Val,
When I learned a handwriting course, I remember that you compare a
chart for your name (Valerie) in English between printing,
handprinting and handwriting. Do you have it? If yes, this chart
helps sw-listers understand them better. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#ffff00 size=6> Hand
waving</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=6></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#ffff00 size=6>
André</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=signwriting@mac.com href="mailto:signwriting@mac.com">Valerie
Sutton</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu
href="mailto:sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu">SignWriting List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 15, 2008 7:45
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [sw-l] printed form and
signwritten form</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>SignWriting List
<DIV>December 15, 2008</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>On Dec 14, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="COLOR: rgb(20,79,174); -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1">I'm not sure to
understand what you mean by</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>HANDWRITING / HANDPRINTING and the examples I've seen don't really help
me to understand clearly what difference ther is between the
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<DIV>Hello Anny -</DIV>
<DIV>I guess I can try to answer your question...</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Handwriting is a term, in English, that has several definitions and
meanings...</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>One meaning for "handwriting" is cursive writing...meaning writing that
"connects letters" in a quick and more relaxed fashion. That kind of
handwriting, here in the US, is taught in schools around third grade...and
when I moved to Denmark at age 19, I found out that the handwriting taught in
Danish schools did not look like the handwriting taught in my school in the
US...so cursive writing does vary from place to place, even when they are
trying to write the same symbols, such as a or b or c...I could not read
handwritten Danish for years because of this education difference...</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>But I could read "handprinting" in Denmark...When people took the time to
write by hand in very slow and careful perfect letters that looked a lot like
type that is printed by machine, then i could read a, b and c and understand
the Danish written by hand...so based on that experience, I started using
these terms:</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Handprinting....Writing by hand that is as perfect as you can, making
symbols as close to the printed machine form as possible...writing block
letters...sometimes called block printing...</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Handwriting...the SignWriting equivalent to a more relaxed "cursive"
style of writing...</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>The problem is that SW Handwriting is not really cursive right now...it
might be someday...there was an idea floating around in the late 1980s that
maybe our Shorthand stenography system could become the "cursive" form of SW
Handwriting, but at the moment SW Handwriting means writing that is not
"perfect" but more relaxed...</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Does this help at all? And can anyone explain it better? I bet you
can...and please do ;-))</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>and I think the idea of using the stenography as a more cursive writing
is a great idea, if we can adapt it to fit the ISWA symbols...</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Val ;-)</DIV></DIV>
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