Exact SignSpellings Help Standardization...

[Valerie Sutton]

Ingvild worte:
>When I first wrote
>this sign, I was thinking readability for Norwegian SL users - and thus
>the sign came to you in a way that was not correct. I have tried now three
>other ways of writing the sign...


SignWriting List
November 06, 2002

Dear SW List members and Ingvild -
Ha! You are not alone...I have had the same experiences now with other American signs...and your new writings are much better, Ingvild...I will discuss those in the next message in this thread.

This experience makes me very happy, because it shows that there is a major benefit to "spelling exactly what is written"...

Any spellings that do not "feel right", automatically give an alert to the writer. The writer can go back and re-write the signs, so that the spellings make sense and are more standardized with other signs that have similar spellings in the dictionary...
--
Val ;-)


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Valerie Sutton
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