<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">SignWriting List<div class="">March 22, 2022</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello Carlos, AnnaGrace, and Adam, and Sutthikhun who encouraged me to post this old book…and thank you Adam, for your long discussions with me about this - your partnership and presentation in 2014 means a great deal ...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is important to realize how much you already are using your own forms of Shorthand. For example, Adam’s shorthened symbols are used in books of Brazilian literature now - I have been asked to post two of those books and I will do so as soon as I can get to it…but it is amazing how it spread in Brazil so fast...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And Carlos, I think it is wonderful that you are inventing or have your own way of writing quickly - it is totally natural for that to happen -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do any of you know of Bernard Bragg? Bernard was a famous ASL actor when I was young, in 1977, at the National Theater of the Deaf, and Bernard became a friend. Bernard gave me my name sign ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bernard had his own way of writing ASL - it was his native language after all…. I came to teach SignWriting to the National Theater of the Deaf in 1977 and I learned about his system and it was remarkably close to SignWriting … I was grateful for Bernard’s support...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I think it is natural for there to be an evolution of writing styles and I don’t want any of you to stop your own creativity - if "Shorthand 1982" can be of use to “Shorthand 2022" - that will be good - 40 years - imagine that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It would be pretty easy to re-do the book in the Expressive - that is one change that could be done easily…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">---------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 22, 2022, at 11:49 AM, Carlos Cristian Libras <<a href="mailto:carloscristianlibras@GMAIL.COM" class="">carloscristianlibras@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Greetings Writers List,<br class="">I downloaded the PDF, and I'm impressed. I never had access to this document, my God, what a wealth. It will take me until 2050 to appreciate every detail of this document.<br class="">All this time I was writing in cursive some techniques that I thought I had invented, were already being used at that time, how easy it is to come to the same conclusion.<br class="">As much as the system has changed a lot, this document is a relic for any researcher. In addition to having listed the 1050 most used ASL signs ever written in cursive. This archive is rich in so many different ways that I don't even know where to start praising it.<br class="">Gratitude for sending us this file, it made my day happier.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>__________<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 22, 2022, at 11:38 AM, Ms. AnnaGrace <<a href="mailto:msannagrace20@GMAIL.COM" class="">msannagrace20@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I find this valuable! <br class="">Even though it was written with the Receptive and horizontal viewpoints, I can still glean the principles and ideas from it.<br class="">Thanks for digging it up for us!<br class=""><br class="">~ AnnaGrace<br class=""></blockquote></div><div class="">___________</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 3:10 PM Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" class="">sutton@signwriting.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">SignWriting List<br class="">March 22, 2022<br class=""><br class="">Hi SW List members -<br class="">It took me time to find the scanned document, but I did find it and it is now posted. This is a very old book, based on our old writing system. It was a workbook for students learning SW Shorthand, so you will find blank pages in the middle of the document for students to practice writing.<br class=""><br class="">From an historic perspective, it is interesting to see how we were writing in 1982, but from a practical perspective, how we write today, in 2022, is what matters...<br class=""><br class="">In 1982, we were writing Receptively, and horizontally, with symbols that were not as detailed. By 1984, there was a major change in the system, which reflects how we write today…<br class=""><br class="">So here is 1982’s shorthand….<br class=""><br class="">"SignWriting Shorthand For Sign Language Stenography", 1982, is now posted as a PDF in our SignWriting Document Archives:<br class=""><br class="">https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs13/sw1296_SignWriting_Shorthand_For_Sign_Language_Stenography_Sutton_1982.pdf<br class=""><br class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="64EF629E-3F92-4F1F-A7E3-C84D77206C7F" width="742" height="734" src="cid:17fb2f681cd43093ef61" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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