<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">SignWriting List</span></font><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">September 21, 2013</span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Welcome to the SignWriting List, Gustavo!</span></font></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; ">As other List members have already answered, SignWriting is certainly used for Field Notes in research, written by hand or by computer. </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 16px; ">I assume that you will be writing your SignWriting notes by hand out in the field, but you are also welcome to use our free software online, to record your Field Notes for others to read later…</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 16px; ">Would you like to record your Field Notes in SignPuddle Online? We have a section for Brazil:</span></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">SignPuddle Directory for Brazil</span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index3.html#sgn-BR">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index3.html#sgn-BR</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">When you enter the Dictionary for Brazil, scroll down and to the left on the screen you will see a place to Register and then Login…</span></font><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 16px; ">Once you are logged in, you can write your own signs and sentences in the sign language you are studying…even though it may not be the official sign language of Brazil (LIBRAS). When you write a sign, you are asked to put in information about each sign that you save, and in that area, you can put yourself as the source, and you can also, in the Text area, state that these signs are really...</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; ">"</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; ">Ka'apor Indians Sign Language, in "Pre-Amazonia" forest". </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 16px; ">Then later, you will be able to search for all the Amazonian signs, in the Text Field.</span></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Another idea is to use desktop software on your private computer, that is not online. There are several choices there, and we can discuss them if you are interested.</span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">But it will be great if you share some of your writing of Amazonian signs with us - I am interested!</span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Val ;-)</span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">----------</span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font><div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">On Sep 18, 2013, at 5:47 PM, Gustavo Godoy <<a href="mailto:gutzii@gmail.com">gutzii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></font><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Hy! I'm Gustavo Godoy from Brazil, student of Anthropology/Ethnology. I am planning to study the Ka'apor Indians Sign Language, in "Pre-Amazonia" forest. </span></font><div>
<font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Anybody discuss the use of SW for writing fieldnotes? (And not for make a system of writing).</span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Sorry for the bad English!</span></font></div><div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">-- <br></span></font><div><u style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">____gustavo godoy___</font></u></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">"as frágeis flores da diferença precisam da penumbra para subsistir" (CLS)</span></font></div>
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</blockquote></div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">---------</span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Val ;-)</span></font></div><div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><img height="81" width="26" id="74e5361d-0ae7-41f8-95bd-526a2c5a0d7e" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:5837D5BC-3CA6-4CB3-96ED-C15CEB4844A6"></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-size: 16px;"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><br><br>Valerie Sutton<br>SignWriting List moderator<br><a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</a><br><br>Post Messages to the SignWriting List:<br>sw-l@listserv.valenciacollege.edu<br><br>SignWriting List Archives & Home Page<br>http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist<br><br>Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages<br>http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1</font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div></div></span></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></body></html>