<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>March 29, 2012</div><div><br></div><div>THANK YOU, Kim, for the great photo of your SW Handwriting - Writing by hand is flourishing, as I said…I was able to retrieve the photo - it is great! Here it is attached…Can you all see it now? Val ;-)</div><div><br></div><div><img height="1224" width="918" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="1175406e-f11c-46e7-9ebb-301f80c9839d" src="cid:56D5B030-E748-41E0-AA90-DA5CE853BDD3"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 29, 2012, at 7:13 AM, Kimberley Shaw wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>#%$^*<br>Sorry list. My lovely picture turned into a string of code that nobody<br>needs to see.<br>Take Two, I'm trying it as an attachment now.<br>- Kim from Boston<br><br>On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Kimberley Shaw <<a href="mailto:skifoot@gmail.com">skifoot@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Sure! I'm glad to volunteer an example of real-world handwriting.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have a whole folder full of songs which are translated from English or<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Yiddish into ASL. They are written while my ASL-consultant creates an<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">on-the-fly interpretation of the song's printed words. I never can write<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">quite fast enough to capture "real-time" signing -- wish I could! As is,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">there are a certain amount of against-the-rules shortcuts that I use, which<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">are faster to write than the standard version, and make sense to me. (So<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that when the director decides to use a song I and my consultant translated<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">5 years ago, I can still read and understand notes from 5 years ago...)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">There is a constant tension between writing nicely, neatly and properly, and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">writing quickly and more streamlined!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It is true that standard Signwriting doesn't always flow easily from pen or<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">paper. It feels very much like writing in Hebrew when you have to use all<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the diacritics and vowels, versus just writing cursive consonants, as fluent<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Israelis (and Yiddish speakers) do.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So here's a picture of one song, unedited, unimproved, warts and all.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Straight from my cellphone. I hope it gets from here to there OK.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Best,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Kim from Boston</blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>