<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I do believe you Maria, and everyone else who has made ANY claim on other systems other than HamNoSys that claim to be "writing systems for ASL," Only SW can claim a history of more than 40 years in more than 40 countries. The si5S system is patently FALSE and his master's thesis should be rejected on incomplete research. <br><br><br>Charles Butler<br>
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Clear writing moves business forward.<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 3/4/13, MARIA GALEA <i><maria.azzopardi@UM.EDU.MT></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: MARIA GALEA <maria.azzopardi@UM.EDU.MT><br>Subject: Re: All Things Linguistic: SignWriting in ASL<br>To: SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU<br>Date: Monday, March 4, 2013, 6:56 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">I can't believe the claims being made about si5s on the website<br><br><a href="http://www.si5s.org/" target="_blank">http://www.si5s.org/</a> i think it is very unfair and untrue to say this:<br><br>"si5s is the first comprehensive writing system for ASL."<br>There are documents in SignWriting since the 1970s! and si5s was developed<br>in 2003.<br><br>I really need to locate and read Arnold's MA thesis from Galluadet univ.<br>can anyone help me get hold of this work? It's called "A Proposal For
A<br>Written System of ASL"<br><br>thank you!<br>maria<br><br><br>> Hmmm, I wonder what would be the best way to do that...<br>> I need to get back in touch with the James and Judy! They are the ones who<br>> introduced me to SW :)<br>><br>> Sent from my iPhone<br>><br>> On Mar 2, 2013, at 8:13 PM, "Valerie Sutton" <<a ymailto="mailto:signwriting@MAC.COM" href="/mc/compose?to=signwriting@MAC.COM">signwriting@MAC.COM</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> SignWriting List<br>>> March 2, 2013<br>>><br>>> Yes, the Kegls are actively using SignWriting to continue to write<br>>> Nicaraguan Sign Language literature - I was just in communication with<br>>> James Shepard-Kegl and others the other day, about software etc…<br>>><br>>> There are quite a number of documents in SignPuddle for Nicaragua, plus<br>>> there are around 40 PDFs of literature…on every subject...<br>>><br>>>
<a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index3.html#sgn-NI" target="_blank">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index3.html#sgn-NI</a><br>>><br>>> I need to document all their documents! Maybe you can help me with this<br>>> Erika - I need a better system for storing everyone's documents online<br>>> in a place that everyone can upload to themselves…so they don't have to<br>>> wait for me to do the web site work - I love that kind of work, so it is<br>>> no problem and I am happy to do it, exceptpt that I am so slow these<br>>> days -<br>>><br>>> Val ;-)<br>>><br>>> ----<br>>><br>>> On Mar 2, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Erika <<a ymailto="mailto:erhoffma@OBERLIN.EDU" href="/mc/compose?to=erhoffma@OBERLIN.EDU">erhoffma@OBERLIN.EDU</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>>> Just had the conference dinner which included a really nice<br>>>> conversation about SW - Anne
Senghas was recalling having used it in<br>>>> Judy Kegl's lab and it was fun to hear about how different it was back<br>>>> then.<br>>>><br>>>> Sent from my iPhone<br>>>><br>>>> On Mar 2, 2013, at 3:20 PM, "Valerie Sutton" <<a ymailto="mailto:signwriting@MAC.COM" href="/mc/compose?to=signwriting@MAC.COM">signwriting@MAC.COM</a>><br>>>> wrote:<br>>>><br>>>>> SignWriting List<br>>>>> March 2, 2013<br>>>>><br>>>>> Actually I am surprised how many pencil strokes there are in SI5S…if<br>>>>> their goal is to write less, like a shorthand, this is actually quite<br>>>>> detailed and takes some time to write by hand (see attached diagram):<br>>>>><br>>>>> This is SI5S:<br>>>>><br>>>>>
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