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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>All best <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Stefan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Von:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> SignWriting
List: Read and Write Sign Languages [mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Im Auftrag von </span></b>Erika<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> Freitag, 13. </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Dezember
2013 03:45<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>An:</span></b>
SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> Re: AW: Design for SignPuddle
3: parts-of-speech and morphology of sign language</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Yes, as for the new categories, it might not be
clear to users whether those terms (non-standard, etc) are meant to apply
to the signs that are recorded or to the particular way of spelling a given
sign. At either level, I can also imagine some problems that might arise over
making that call (who makes it, according to what criteria, etc) - issues such
as those Stefan has pointed to (applying I think the understanding of the
criteria as indicating the sign) and those Maria raises (regarding the
spelling).<br>
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Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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On Dec 12, 2013, at 7:54 PM, "maria galea" <</span><a
href="mailto:signwriting.maria@GMAIL.COM"><span lang=EN-GB>signwriting.maria@GMAIL.COM</span></a></font><span
lang=EN-GB>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi again!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>About parts of speech, I agree with Rachel that parts
of speech for sign languages are usually not so straightforward (like English).
A sign may sometimes become a verb or noun depending on its context. For
instance in LSM, the sign DOOR can be either nominal or verbal depending on its
place within a sentence: MAN-DOOR would mean 'the man opens the door' (where it
is verbal) whereas in DOOR-BREAK the same sign is nominal meaning 'the door
broke'...but it is good to have the option to list them I guess and leave them
empty at will..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>yes Valerie I definitely see the value of SignPuddle
as an editing program for all, even beginners - I just thought it would be good
if Puddle could remain accessible to all, yet become less anonymous - for
instance on the internet there are millions of blogs and billions of blog-posts
but they are rarely anonymous - and in being more transparent has its
advantages :) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Re the statuses:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>* provisional<br>
* approved<br>
* nonstandard<br>
* rejected</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I think I understand Stefan's concern, because <font
color=black><span style='color:black'>how can spellings be judged when the
orthography of a given sign language is not yet standardized. </span></font></span></font><font
size=4 color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>All
spellings are acceptable in the sense that they are all attempts towards the
representation of a sign in written form (irrespective of skill in SW). </span></font><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>Rather than these statuses, could
you mark the spellings with the statuses of representation 01, </span></font><font
size=4 color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>representation
0</span></font><font color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>2, </span></font><font
size=4 color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>representation
0</span></font><font color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black'>3 etc of
a given sign, and somehow link these different spellings of the
same sign (lexeme) under one target sign. This would make the count of
the sign entries truly sign/lexeme counts rather than a count of every
spelling? ... once again not sure this is possible, but just thought I'd
share my thoughts about it just the same,</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>regards,</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>maria</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 12 December 2013 21:52, Stefan Woehrmann <</span><a
href="mailto:stefanwoehrmann@gebaerdenschrift.de" target="_blank"><span
lang=EN-GB>stefanwoehrmann@gebaerdenschrift.de</span></a></font><span
lang=EN-GB>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>“The biggest change will be a status for each entry.</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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* provisional<br>
* approved<br>
* nonstandard<br>
* rejected</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>Hi Steve </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>– I am afraid that this will cause problems –
who am I to judge things like these categories ...no – all I take care of
as much as possible is to make sure that most entries should be written
correctly .. I do not stop to mention at any workshop or meeting that it
is not the question of signing or signlanguage what I am interested in –
as a SignWriting scribe – I am interested to write, whatever I see as a
given signing – performance. That is the reason that it is so wonderfull
to add several dialects or variations of a given sign/term ... Your new
categories should be entered in private puddles – people may hire a staff
or a group of a scientific comunity may want to think about this ... </span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>Just my idea </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>Stefan </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>“The biggest change will be a status for each entry.</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>* provisional<br>
* approved<br>
* nonstandard<br>
* rejected</font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
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bold'>Von:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages
[mailto:<a href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" target="_blank">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Im Auftrag von </span></b>Stephen E Slevinski
Jr<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> Donnerstag, 12. </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Dezember
2013 17:52<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>An:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><a
href="mailto:SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" target="_blank"><span
lang=EN-GB>SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</span></a></span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> Re: AW: Design for
SignPuddle 3: parts-of-speech and morphology of sign language</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>On 12/12/13, 5:38 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Well I haven´t got the time, the knowledge, the
energy to work with more options as I do right now. I am happy that “find
by word” with different options ...and find by symbol is possible, </span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:navy'>For my work at school there is nothing more
needed – as far as I can see now... </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'><br>
Hi Stefan,<br>
<br>
No worries. I'll be fixing up the current usage and adding some new
functionality. Basic usage will stay the same and not require additional
steps or knowledge.<br>
<br>
The biggest change will be a status for each entry.<br>
* provisional<br>
* approved<br>
* nonstandard<br>
* rejected<br>
<br>
New entries are created as provisional. Editors can later mark the
entries as approved, nonstandard, or rejected.<br>
<br>
This is needed to clean up the search results and have a measure of a
dictionary's contents.</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>On 12/12/13, 9:57 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>After reading these comments, it sounds like to me it is
best not to include this feature of “morphology” in SignPuddle 3,
when there may not be an equivalent in the sign language world that matches
such a term and it will only confuse all of us - it actually could be a
negative for the software.</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>I agree that there probably isn't a universal morphology
list. <br>
<br>
</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>There are so many other features in SignPuddle 3 that we
need so badly…thank you for giving us those, Steve -</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'><br>
Hi Val, I understand there is a lot of pain. I'm trying to focus on what
needs done sooner rather than later. Thanks for your patience.<br>
<br>
The initial database design is working but needs to be cleaned up. The
design choices have far reaching implications and require serious
consideration. </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>On 12/11/13, 4:53 PM, Charles Butler wrote:</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=3 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>My only comment is that
I hope all dictionary entries don't require a linguist to actually put them in
or to find them. I have been excited about SignWriting because it has allowed
me to write what I actually sign, not describe it in a spoken language for a
third party. </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'><br>
Hi Charles,<br>
<br>
The dictionary is to help support writers of all kinds. The additional
information is not required, but an optional description.</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>That will become an impossible burden to
lexicographers. </span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>Let's not think of it as a burden, but as a possibility. <br>
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</span></font><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black'>The burden becomes impossible, and is no longer useful to an
actual user of SignWriting as a writing system, not a linguistic tool. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white'><font size=3 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black'>Yes, SignWriting is a writing system and will stay that way.
The linguistic additions are outside of the SignWriting script and not an
integral part.<br>
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Regards,<br>
-Steve</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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