Virtual present

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
December 24, 2003

Dear SW List, and Steve and Bart in Belgium!
What a wonderful Christmas gift...The entire English-American Sign
Language Dictionary, that is found in SignWriter DOS...(an estimated
3,111 signs or so), is now available on a specially-programmed web site
from Belgium...smile...THANK YOU!!

I am assuming that someday you will be placing Flemish (Belgian) signs
there too? or any other signed language that needs a database on the
web? That is a great gift, Steve and Bart...

I know what a huge job this is, and once again, thanks for the great
Christmas gift...

For those who are curious...please go to:

English-ASL SignWriting Dictionary on the Web
http://plantijn.ruca.ua.ac.be/~aertsbraem/ASL/alfabet.php

Val ;-)


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Steven Aerts in Belgium wrote:

Dear Valerie, List,
Christmas seems a good moment to show what we have achieved in our
project. If
you go to http://plantijn.ruca.ua.ac.be/~aertsbraem/ASL/ you will find a
searchable dictionary of the entire ASL (at least the entire contents
of the
on-line DIC and DIN).  We hope you will be able to search on signs by
the end
of June. You can use the 'alphabetical index' ("alfabetische index"),
'search' ("zoeken") for different parts of a word, ... The Dutch words
'volgende' ("next") and 'vorige' ("previous") might also
interest you. (Currently the system might respond slowly due to heavy
testing.)

Merry Christmas to all of you

         Bart & Steven
         http://plantijn.ruca.ua.ac.be/~aertsbraem/