<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">SignWriting List<div>February 25, 2023</div><div><br></div><div>SignWriting is actively being posted on Twitter…</div><div><br></div><div>I just found several postings I had not seen before…</div><div><br></div><div>Here is one:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://twitter.com/akivaw/status/1456665438109249539?s=20"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/akivaw/status/1456665438109249539?s=20" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#EBF7FF;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:288px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:500px;" width="288" height="500" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="FDcdTMWVcAAxUsi.png" src="cid:235C21EA-E980-46F0-B87E-0B226B99B828"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><div style="margin:10px 16px 0px 16px;color:#272727;font-weight:300;text-align:left;width:268px;font-size:11pt;word-wrap:break-word;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-quotedText">You may recognize Sutton as the inventor of Sutton SignWriting, used to write sign languages.
In fact, SignWriting evolved from DanceWriting, after a Danish linguist and sign language researcher suggested the idea to her. Very early versions of SignWriting featured staff lines.</div></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#EBF7FF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(235, 247, 255, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:6px 0px 6px 16px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-leftIconItem" width="25"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/akivaw/status/1456665438109249539?s=20" draggable="false"><img src="https://abs.twimg.com/favicons/twitter.2.ico" srcset="https://abs.twimg.com/favicons/twitter.2.ico 1x" draggable="false" style="pointer-events:none !important;display:inline-block;width:25px;height:25px;border-radius:3px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-leftIcon" width="25" height="25" data-unique-identifier=""></a></td><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 10px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/akivaw/status/1456665438109249539?s=20" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">Akiva Weinberger</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/akivaw/status/1456665438109249539?s=20" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">twitter.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><br><div>
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Val ;-)<br><br></div><span><img alt="Valerie_Signature_5.jpg" src="cid:819471BF-850F-4EC0-A360-B6BC570952B8"></span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br><br>Valerie Sutton<br>sutton@signwiting.org</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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