Happy (slightly early) birthday Val!!!<br>I hope you will have a special day!<br>Love,<br>Erika<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Valerie Sutton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">SignWriting List<div>February 21, 2011</div><div><br></div>
<div>Hello Stefan and Everyone!</div><div><br></div><div>It is February 22 in Germany now....Here in California it is still February 21st ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you, Stefan, for always remembering my birthday. You have taught me how important birthdays are...they give us pause, don't they? To think about what we have done in our years here on this earth, and think about what we wish for the future...</div>
<div><br></div><div>I will be 60 years old in 16 hours (smile)... a new decade for me...</div><div><br></div><div>and I am planning to live another 60 years, so I am only half way through and certainly not done!! ha!</div>
<div><br></div><div>And everyone - look at the wonderful card that Stefan wrote - it is written in ASL in SignWriting on the right, but on the left, Stefan has written the movements of the lips speaking English words...called Woehrmann's SpeechWriting, which is Stefan's unique invention, writing the sounds of the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) with lip, mouth and breath symbols that are originally based on SignWriting symbols, but Stefan has expanded the amount of symbols further, to be able to capture the refined movements of speech...and Stefan has developed a standardized way to write the movements of speech around the world -</div>
<div><br></div><div>Recently, Fernando Capovilla from Brazil has been working with Stefan behind the scenes, and Stefan developed a way to write spoken Portuguese with the feedback of Fernando's team in Brazil - it is just so amazing to watch all these brilliant people work together -</div>
<div><br></div><div>So thank you, Stefan, for writing my birthday wishes, and my name, in Mundbildschrift (SpeechWriting)... I will treasure the card always ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Val ;-)</div><div></div></div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">
<div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Valerie Sutton</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>---------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>
On Feb 21, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="DE"><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">This is another kind of Happy Birthday document.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Mundbildschrift - “Woehrmanns SpeechWriting” – next ti SignWriting - ;-)</span></font></div>
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Can you read it?</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Stefan</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote>
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Val ;-)<br><br>Valerie Sutton<br>SignWriting List moderator<br><a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" target="_blank">sutton@signwriting.org</a><br><br>Post Messages to the SignWriting List:<br><a href="mailto:sw-l@listserv.valenciacc.edu" target="_blank">sw-l@listserv.valenciacc.edu</a><br>
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<br></div><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway<br>Assistant Professor of Anthropology<br>Oberlin College<br>