<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>And what better way to spread the word on SignWriting once we can get an interface to twitter in SW.</div><div><br></div><div>Charles</div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Kimberley Shaw <skifoot@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> SignWriting List <sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, November 23, 2009 10:49:17 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [sw-l] common criticisms of signwriting?<br></font><br>
Hello Trevor:<br> you have valid points ... but maybe I wasn't 100 percent clear<br>about my own point of view.<br> My Deaf friends and I may be unusually biased in favor of the<br>written word. One of these friends is a published poet, and the other<br>one is an absolute bookworm. I am myself a librarian, and as a born<br>hard-of-hearing person, have always found newspapers and books to be<br>much more reliable ways to be informed than the frustrations of not<br>quite getting all the info from TV and radio. So, maybe we're all<br>three of us a little immune to 21st-century Fox-style celebrity<br>culture! Except of course for when Marlee Matlin's on a certain dance<br>show and we're all blogging about it and gathering around the computer<br>to watch the after-broadcast version of her episodes...<br> In talking about being text-centered, I was actually thinking more<br>in terms of languages (like some Native ones) which
have never been<br>written down, versus European and Asian languages which have been<br>written down for a very long time.<br> So, I still wonder about my friends' contradictory responses.<br>Best,<br>Kim from Boston<br><br><br><br>On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Trevor Jenkins <<a ymailto="mailto:bslwannabe@gmail.com" href="mailto:bslwannabe@gmail.com">bslwannabe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi Kim,<br>><br>> I'm not convinved that we do live in what your called a "text centric highly<br>> literate world". Various pundits (Neil Postman "Amusing Ourselves to Death"<br>> (1985) for exampe) have long argued that the late 20th and early 21st<br>> century are an unliterate society and meaningful debate has ceased....<br><br><br><br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>SW-L SignWriting List<br><br>Post Message<br><a ymailto="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu"
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