<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">April 20, 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Apr 19, 2015, at 3:07 AM, Madson Barreto <<a href="mailto:barretobh@gmail.com" class="">barretobh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">Valerie and Steve, for writing Libras, we use all graphems of SignWriting. But for the <br class="">Handshapes we use only 111... all this are on our book 'Escrita de Sinais sem mistérios'. <br class="">In the next monday I will generate a file and send to you with all this 111 Handshapes.<br class=""></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello Madson, and everyone!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Of course this is very exciting that you have pinned down the handshapes you feel are used in LIBRAS and we want to know the information… What you really need is your own privately written LIBRAS SignPuddle Online, that is open to the general public to read and copy, but the writing and editing is only you - then your hand symbols would be there for you in SignMaker 2015 exactly as you have written with them, because it would be based on your own SignPuddle file that is only edited by one editor.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Public LIBRAS SignPuddle Dictionary</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=12&sgn=46" class="">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=12&sgn=46</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But experts in one sign language do not always agree with each other as to what is needed...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We would keep the publicly written LIBRAS dictionary in SignPuddle no matter what, so people could choose between the Public LIBRAS dictionary and the dictionary by a specific group… everyone will have choices and more private dictionaries could be established if necessary -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let me share with you …</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have TWO ASL dictionaries in SignPuddle Online right now -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. PUBLIC ASL DICTIONARY…free and open for anyone to write in…new signs are written daily by beginners…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Public ASL Dictionary in SignPuddle</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=4" class="">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=4</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. ASLBible Dictionary … private dictionary that is written by only two groups of Bible translators, and basically edited by one person in their specific style of writing ASL … open to the pubic for reading and copying but not writing…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ASLBible Dictionary (Privately written but publicly read and copied)</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=28" class="">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=28</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And…when Adam Frost wrote his textbook on ASL Hand Symbols - the hand symbols he felt are needed to write ASL…we found out that other ASL writers were using other variations of some of those symbols. Interesting to see there are different opinions and usages amongst native signers…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs9/sw0827_American_Sign_Language_Hand_Symbols_Frost_Sutton_2013.pdf" class="">Adam Frost’s ASL Hand Symbols Manual</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs9/sw0827_American_Sign_Language_Hand_Symbols_Frost_Sutton_2013.pdf" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs9/sw0827_American_Sign_Language_Hand_Symbols_Frost_Sutton_2013.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">so this is an issue that could be resolved with a mix of privately and publicly written dictionaries -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div></body></html>________________________________________________
<p>
<p>
SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION
<p>
Valerie Sutton
SignWriting List moderator
sutton@signwriting.org
<p>
Post Messages to the SignWriting List:
sw-l@listserv.valenciacollege.edu
<p>
SignWriting List Archives & Home Page
http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist
<p>
Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages
http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1