<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, 2021</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Welcome Josenilson Mendes to the SignWriting List!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Very happy to meet you officially, although I know of your work and I am delighted to meet you directly. Thank you for posting your introduction.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is the English translation, from Google Translate, of Josenilson’s introduction below in Portuguese:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 249);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 249);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">English Translation:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 249);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 249);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Dear Valerie Sutton and SignWriting List participants,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 249); min-height: 34px;" class="">My name is Josenilson da Silva Mendes. I am 48 years old. I live in Fortaleza, capital of Ceará-BR. I have been a Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) translator and interpreter since 1990. My first contact with SignWriting was in 1997, at a Congress on Deaf Education, in Rio de Janeiro-RJ.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 249); min-height: 34px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 249); min-height: 34px;" class="">Today, I work as a translator and interpreter of Libras at the Federal University of Ceará-UFC. From 2012, I started to deepen my knowledge about the Sutton SignWriting system with the book by Madson and Raquel Barreto, “SignWriting Without Mysteries”. In 2015, I got to know <a href="http://SignWriting.org" class="">SignWriting.org</a> and <a href="http://SignBank.org" class="">SignBank.org</a>. Since then, I have done translations from Portuguese to Libras, mainly from the Bible, on SignPuddle Online, and transcriptions of videos in Libras through the Sutton system. I also proofread translations and texts written in Libras by the Sutton system for some hearing and deaf colleagues.<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 249); min-height: 34px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 249);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">I completed my Master's degree in Translation Studies in 2020, at UFC, and my dissertation was a commented translation involving SignWriting. I have taught others what I have learned and continue to learn about the Sutton SignWriting system.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 249);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 249);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">____________</span></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 26, 2021, at 11:01 AM, Josenilson da Silva Mendes <<a href="mailto:jsm88b@gmail.com" class="">jsm88b@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Caros Valerie Sutton e participantes da SignWriting List,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Meu nome é Josenilson da Silva Mendes. Tenho 48 anos. Moro em Fortaleza, capital do Ceará-BR. Sou tradutor e intérprete de língua de sinais brasileira - Libras desde 1990. Meu primeiro contato com a escrita de sinais foi em 1997, em um congresso de educação de surdos, no Rio de Janeiro-RJ.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hoje, trabalho como tradutor e intérprete de Libras na Universidade Federal do Ceará-UFC. A partir de 2012, comecei a aprofundar meus conhecimentos sobre o sistema Sutton de escrita de sinais com o livro de Madson e Raquel Barreto, Escrita de Sinais sem Mistérios. Em 2015, conheci o <a href="http://signwriting.org/" class="">signwriting.org</a> e o <a href="http://signbank.org/" class="">signbank.org</a>. Desde então, tenho feito traduções do português para a Libras, principalmente da Bíblia, no SignPuddle Online, e transcrições de vídeos em Libras pelo sistema Sutton. Também faço revisão de traduções e textos escritos em Libras pelo sistema Sutton para alguns colegas ouvintes e surdos.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Conclui o mestrado em Estudos da Tradução em 2020, na UFC, e minha dissertação era uma tradução comentada envolvendo escrita de sinais.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Tenho ensinado a outros o que já aprendi e continuo aprendendo sobre o sistema Sutton de escrita de sinais.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="">Josenilson Mendes</span><br class=""></div></div></div></div>
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