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Hi all,<br><br>I'm a bit confused:<br><br>This seems to turn into a discussion on how to spell certain signs in ASL.<br><br>My impression from Erica's invitation was that we were supposed to write a short passage in our local sign language, and in our personal style of writing.<br><br>Both the Pear story and the Frog story seem to ask for good Deaf storytelling - something that can be amazing, but would call for something different from what I was anticipating.<br><br>If the book project is also going to augment the amount of written stories for Deaf children, the task is huge.<br><br>If the book is to try to demonstrate and research different ways of using SW, I suggest one (or both) of the following courses:<br><br>1) A short paragraph (less than 100 English words) to be translated and written into the different SLs. The paragraph should be (almost) culture-free, and give opportunities to show use of classifiers, location etc.<br><br>2) A 'story' or scene with one or a few simple pictures that would give oporunity to use location markers, classifiers etc.<br><br>As I cannot draw, I cannot give good examples of what I mean, but my suggestions for outlines would be something like:<br>1) (simple drawing of boy, a school, a house,..): "Hi! My name is (fill inn from culture). I am a boy. I am deaf. I go to school over there. I learn to read and to write. My language is Sign language. I learn to read and write my own language in Sign Writing at school. I live with my family in the house over there, on the hill. Our house i red ....)<br><br>2) Frame 1: Woman walking with a small dog on a leash Frame 2: Woman still leasurely walking the dog, scene altered Frame 3: Woman & dog, + cat in opposite direction Frame 4: Dog dragging chasing cat and dragging woman, who has fallen<br><br>Or even simpler: A drawing of a room with a table, a chair, ... and a sentence to be translated, like: "Please bring me the red book that is on the table to the left of the door" , or something similar<br><br>Ingvild
<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:09:57 -0700<br>From: kjoanne403@SIGNWRITING.ORG<br>Subject: Re: A Pear Story<br>To: SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU<br><br><style><!--
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--></style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">shall we discuss how to sign FROG instead? </span></p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D">Sure; I’d write it like this:</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D"><img id="ecxPicture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CDF813.48FB53B0" alt="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/glyphogram.php?size=0.7&ksw=M18x56S2ff00n18xn17S12a12n11x22S21800n16x48" height="62" width="31"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D">Not exactly the same as other entries in SignPuddle, but they’re all along the same lines.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D">KJ</span></p></div></div></div> </div></body>
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