<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="" style=""><span style="color: rgb(55, 64, 78); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" class="">The first writing system to gain use among the public was SignWriting, proposed in 1974 by Valerie Sutton.[55] SignWriting consists of more than 5000 distinct iconic graphs/glyphs.[55] Currently it is in use in many schools for the Deaf, particularly in Brazil, and has been used in international sign language forums with speakers and researchers in more than 40 countries, including Brazil, Ethiopi</span><span class="" style="display: inline; color: rgb(55, 64, 78); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">a, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Tunisia,
and the United States. Sutton SignWriting has both a printed and an electronically produced form so that persons can use the system anywhere that oral languages are written (personal letters, newspapers and media, academic research). The systematic examination of the International Sign Writing Alphabet (ISWA) as an equivalent usage structure to the International Phonetic Alphabet for spoken languages has been proposed.[58]According to some researchers, SignWriting is not a phonemic orthography, and does not have a one-to-one map from phonological forms to written forms.[59]. This assertion has been disputed and the process for each country to look at the ISWA and create a phonemic/morphemic assignment of features of each sign language was proposed by researchers Msc. Roberto Cesar Reis da Costa and Madson Barreto in a thesis forum on June 23, 2014. [60]At this point the Wikimedia has accepted SignWriting for inclusion in a translation project of
articles written in English and then translated into ASL and is working on a specific translation engine.[61]</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(55, 64, 78); font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(55, 64, 78); font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">I updated the ASL Wikipedia article to include the above paragraph which cross-referenced some presentations at the forum. I hope that others will avail yourselves of Wikipedia and other media outlets to let people know of ongoing research. </span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(55, 64, 78); font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial,
'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(55, 64, 78); font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Sometimes just getting a footnote is a major step forward. </span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(55, 64, 78); font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">Charles Butler<br class="" style="">chazzer3332000@yahoo.com<br class="" style="">240-764-5748<br class="" style="">Clear writing moves business forward.</div><div class="" style=""><br
class="" style=""></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class="" style=""> <hr size="1" class="" style=""> <font size="2" face="Arial" class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight:bold;" class="">From:</span></b> Valerie Sutton <signwriting@MAC.COM><br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">To:</span></b> SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU <br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 25, 2014 1:12 PM<br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Subject:</span></b> SW SYMPOSIUM ... Thank you to all the presenters!<br class="" style=""> </font> </div> <div class="" style=""><br
class="" style=""><div id="yiv6821140218" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div style="text-align:center;" class=""><div style="margin:0px 0px 16px;font-size:12px;" class=""><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/2014" class="" style=""><img alt="SignWriting_Symposium_Logo.jpg" id="yiv6821140218B48EE59F-879E-4A8C-9FAD-96B8B83BD427" height="360" width="360" src="cid:1.3913911870@web163403.mail.gq1.yahoo.com" class="" style=""></a></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 16px;font-size:12px;min-height:14px;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;color:rgb(0, 144, 81);" class=""><b class="" style="">THANK YOU TO ALL PRESENTERS</b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;color:rgb(0, 144, 81);" class=""><b class="" style="">AT THE SIGNWRITING SYMPOSIUM 2014!</b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;min-height:22px;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div
style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;color:rgb(4, 51, 255);" class="">MANY THANKS FOR YOUR DEDICATION</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;color:rgb(4, 51, 255);" class=""> TO YOUR SIGNWRITING PROJECTS,</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;color:rgb(4, 51, 255);" class="">AND FOR PRESENTING AT THE SYMPOSIUM</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;color:rgb(4, 51, 255);" class="">LIVE ONLINE IN GOOGLE HANGOUTS</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;min-height:22px;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;" class="">…and this is only the beginning (smile)…</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;" class="">Your presentations will be improved with captions</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;" class="">and other supportive communications, and will be</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;" class="">separated into individual videos to be placed on</div><div
style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;" class="">your Presentation web pages, as well as being</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;" class="">a part of the longer videos for each of the 4 days.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;min-height:22px;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;" class="">…and we hope to continue to share together,</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;" class="">in future symposiums,</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;" class="">and on your 2014 presentation web pages…</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;min-height:22px;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;min-height:14px;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 16px;font-size:12px;"
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</b><b class="" style="">2014 Online</b></a></span></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 16px;font-size:24px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(0, 144, 81);" class=""><b class="" style="">40 Presentations From 12 Countries</b></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 16px;font-size:24px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><b class="" style="">Recorded LIVE July 21-24, 2014</b></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 12px;font-size:24px;font-family:Arial;" class="">VIEW THE SYMPOSIUM RECORDINGS:</div><div style="margin:0px 0px 12px;font-size:24px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(227, 36, 0);" class="">Go to: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.signwriting.org/" class="" style="">http://www.SignWriting.org</a></div></div></div>________________________________________________
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