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Wow Stefan, I could not have said it any better !!!!!!<div>Have a wonderful day Valerie . I am sure everyone agrees with Stefan how thankful we are for your wonderful invention.</div><div>I am sharing the dance writing this year with an upcoming ballet teacher. It is still very helpful to be able to "jot" combinations down during class.</div><div>Thank you!!!! Thank you!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!</div><div><br></div><div>Tini.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 22-Feb-09, at 7:06 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Good morning Valerie and sw-list friends, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Happy birthday to YOU ... Happy birthday to YOU ... Happy birthday dear Valerie ... Happy birthday to you ! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Well again we can celebrate the birthday of the inventor of this genius movement writing system ... <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Although we know that Sign Languages can be written now there is for some reason still some resistance, fear and prejudice to overcome. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Nevertheless I would like to take the chance to express my feelings of gratitude for all you are doing for us. Without your input, energy and trust which you put into your invention it would not have grown that much. Look at the wonderful crowd of people all around the word who are working on all different kinds of instruction materials, software programs and SW-documents. All of this would not have happened if you would share your ideas and your work in such a generous way. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial">We are really blessed to live in a time window of history when writing Sign Languages become a quite normal option for those who are looking for something like this. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial">While I am busy to pile up material for my second book – I found this: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“Historically there was no written form for American Sign Language. Transposing a three-dimensional language that uses space, non-manual signals, and motion as its primary characteristics onto paper is a daunting challenge. Only recently with the advent of SignWriting (TM) has ASL become a written language, .... “ <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Wow – this is the first time that I read such a comment from somebody who is well accepted in SL- instruction. The quote obove can be found in “Master ASL! Fingerspelling, Numbers, And Glossing – page 129 – written by Jason E. Zinza<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Hopefully the same author would be interested to find more and more of his wonderful graphics – illustrating ASL phrases – written in SignWriting. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial">OK – Have a wonderful Birthday with your family and hopefully you will spend 2 or 4 hours away from the computer – smile <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I designed another birthday-card especially for you! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> <span><Happy Birthday Valerie 2009 .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>