<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">April 26, 2019</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Welcome to our new List member, Daniele Giacomini, from Italy!</div><div class=""><span style="font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Thank you for introducing your project, Daniele.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Daniele has designed a SignWriting database online. I visited this link earlier today: <span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/daniele-giacomini/is-lis-notebook" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/daniele-giacomini/is-lis-notebook</a></span></div><div class=""><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><font face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><font face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">It looks good! Thank you for sharing your work, Daniele. I look forward to studying it in more detail soon.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><font face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><font face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">And there is much to talk about. SignWriting was used in Italy in the past, so it is good to learn of a new project from Italy. </span></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><font face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><font face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">There are several Italian SignWriting projects online. Below is a link to one. Later today I will write again with a more complete listing...</span></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><strong style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><font color="#00CC33" size="3" face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><strong style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><font color="#00CC33" size="3" face="Arial" class="">SignWriting Symposium 2014, presentation 0001</font></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0001.html" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;" class="">http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0001.html</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><h4 style="text-align: -webkit-center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="text-align: left; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0001.html#abstract" title="Abstract" target="_self" class="">“Implementation into the SWORD</a> </strong><strong class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0001.html#abstract" title="Abstract" target="_self" class="">project of observations arising</a> </strong><strong class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0001.html#abstract" title="Abstract" target="_self" class="">from the process of users'</a> </strong><strong class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0001.html#abstract" title="Abstract" target="_self" class="">appropriating and</a> </strong><strong class=""><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0001.html#abstract" title="Abstract" target="_self" class="">adapting SignWriting”</a> </strong><strong class=""><font color="#00CC33" size="3" face="Arial" class="">by </font></strong><strong style="color: rgb(0, 204, 51);" class=""><font color="#00CC33" size="3" face="Arial" class="">Claudia Bianchini </font></strong><strong style="color: rgb(0, 204, 51);" class=""><font color="#00CC33" size="3" face="Arial" class="">and </font></strong><strong style="color: rgb(0, 204, 51);" class=""><font color="#00CC33" size="3" face="Arial" class="">Fabrizio Borgia</font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong style="color: rgb(0, 204, 51);" class=""><font color="#00CC33" size="3" face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Thank you, Claudia and Fabrizio, for this project too - How are you all doing?</span></div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Val ;-)</span></div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="text-align: left; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">--------------</span></div></h4></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><h4 style="text-align: -webkit-center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div></h4></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 26, 2019, at 10:46 AM, Daniele Giacomini <<a href="mailto:appunti2@gmail.com" class="">appunti2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d947f49e-7fff-4743-d3c1-74ac01f7f183" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Hello,</span><br class=""></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">I would like to introduce you something I made, using the SignWriting system, in relation to International Sign and LIS (Italian sign language).</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/daniele-giacomini/is-lis-notebook" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/daniele-giacomini/is-lis-notebook</span></a></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">I am not part of any institution and I am not an academic: I was doing that for my personal interest in learning sign languages, with the hope that, whatever I am able to do, it could be useful. To ensure reusability I included the SWU encoding that I obtained using SignMaker 2017 </span><a href="http://www.signbank.org/signmaker/#?ui=en" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">http://www.signbank.org/signmaker/#?ui=en</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> .</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">My particular dream would be that International Sign could get more attention and could develop into an actual international language, for deaf and for hearing people. An international language should be unrelated to culture (and tradition), and therefore should not be “owned” by any particular community. In my opinion, IS has the potential to become such a language, for the benefit of everyone.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">My name is Daniele Giacomini and I am 55. For three years, so far, I have been a special needs teacher for high school. I had the occasion to attend an introductory course to LIS (Italian sign language), and my need for making notes lead me to the SignWriting.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/appunti2/" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">https://www.linkedin.com/in/appunti2/</span></a></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Thank you for your attention.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Daniele Giacomini </span><a href="mailto:appunti2@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Quattrocento Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">appunti2@gmail.com</span></a></div></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>
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