<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">January 13, 2018</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good Saturday everyone!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you Steve, for your thoughts on literacy and the benefits of reading, and for your amazing pioneering software development of FSW (Formal SignWriting in ASCII) and SWU (SignWriting in Unicode) for the SignWriting Script!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And congratulations on the 6-year anniversary of the development of FSW.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am still completing the web pages for the presentations of the SignWriting Symposium 2017. There are six 2017 presentations, and yours Steve, is ready to share with everyone...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SignWriting Symposium 2017</div><div class="">Presentation 66 by Stephen E. Slevinski Jr</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0066.html" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0066.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You will see 5 PowerPoints by Steve in the 2017 Symposium on the above web page, and also two videos and an Abstract, about the new development, called SWU.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and thank you for this new 2018 PowerPoint, Steve:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/StephenSlevinski/organizing-principles-of-formal-signwriting-86091202" class="">https://www.slideshare.net/StephenSlevinski/organizing-principles-of-formal-signwriting-86091202</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We can add it to the SignWriting Symposium 2018 at the end of 2018!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I will be announcing all 6 presentations of the 2017 Symposium sometime this month.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And THANK YOU once again Steve, for your contributions to writing sign languages around the world.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="D497ACBE-8B2F-4278-AB1E-139D643274D6" src="cid:A8140F80-A3DD-4257-B684-5C6E062FCAEE" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 12, 2018, at 2:42 PM, Stephen Slevinski <<a href="mailto:slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET" class="">slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi SignWriting List,<br class=""><br class="">6 years ago today, I published the specification of Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW). Since the initial release, the characters have remained the same. Sign language written in FSW is safely encoded in a stable standard that will be readable in 100 years from now.<br class=""><br class="">To celebrate 6 years of FSW, I created a presentation about why I created Formal SignWriting and about the organizing principles around the design.<br class=""><br class="">First, I believe in real literacy and that means reading and writing. Literacy should be learned in a person's primary language as well as any secondary languages. FSW makes it possible to write and share sign language in ways that are impossible with video.<br class=""><br class="">Second, I believe in the utility of formal structures such as formal conventions, formal order, freeform construction, and formal languages. These structures make it possible to write sign language in FSW.<br class=""><br class="">Lastly, I believe in the benefits of living forward. I believe we should learn from the past, apply in the present, and work towards the future. The real benefits of FSW will be in 100 years from now. For sign languages, FSW makes it possible to create a tradition in literacy with writing that is documented and portable.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/StephenSlevinski/organizing-principles-of-formal-signwriting-86091202" class="">https://www.slideshare.net/StephenSlevinski/organizing-principles-of-formal-signwriting-86091202</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">The same principles hold true for the 2017 characters of SignWriting in Unicode (SWU).<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class="">-Steve<br class=""><br class="">________________________________________________<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION<br class=""><br class="">Valerie Sutton<br class="">SignWriting List moderator<br class="">sutton@signwriting.org<br class=""><br class="">Post Messages to the SignWriting List:<br class="">sw-l@listserv.valenciacollege.edu<br class=""><br class="">SignWriting List Archives & Home Page<br class="">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist<br class=""><br class="">Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages<br class="">http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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