Finnish Towns

[Ingvild Roald]

I'd want to comment on this, but that would have to wait until I'm back
home on my own comuter with the sw-program. I think I see another
solution, using horizon line, if we want it that detailed, but with a
simpler but incorrect solution for evereday use, if our Deaf people find
that is the best. The American spelling is not our sign - it's almost as
spelling 'much' for 'meget'.

Ingvild


SignWriting List <SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA> writes:
>SignWriting List
>October 8, 2003
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>But, Nitsu, here is my opinion -
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>I believe that writing those inbetween palm facings is a good idea for
>Research Use, but for Everyday Use, I would choose to write the
>Finnish, Norwegian and American signs for HOUSE the same...YES...I know
>that the Finnish and Norwegian signs do have a different plam facing
>than the American...but does such detail really matter for Everyday
>Use?...
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>When I moved to Denmark, as a hearing person, I had to learn my second
>spoken language, Danish. When I looked at the word "meget" in Danish,
>which means "very" in English, I found out that in the numerous
>dialects of spoken Danish, that the word "meget" is pronounced very
>differently around Denmark. The Copenhagen dialect pronounced it like
>"myeth", but on the Jutland peninsula they pronounced each letter the
>way we would in English...so why don't the Copenhagen people spell
>their version differently? because it would mean there would be many
>ways to spell the same word, and that becomes overwhelming for
>people...so spoken languages use the same Roman alphabet symbols to
>represent many different sounds...as you can see in "myeth"...Another
>example in Danish: the word "mad" means "food" and the "d" at the end
>is pronounced with a "th", like "math" except ...it is slightly
>different than the English "th" - so it is not like "math", but with a
>unique "d" sound to the Danish language...smile...writing those
>differences would be rediculous for everyday use...
>
>In spoken languages, we have the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA),
>which is supposed to have a way to write these differences...so I am
>suggesting that our Research Use symbolset (SSS-2004) is like the
>IPA...and you may want to use that for your research...but when writing
>the sign for HOUSE daily, I would suggest using this standard spelling
>(see diagram)...So how would a person know how to pronouce the sign for
>HOUSE in the US and Finland?..When they live in the US, they will learn
>to pronouce it the way they sign it in the US, and when they move to
>Finland, the Finnish deaf people will teach them to do the orientation
>a little bit differently, but the sign will be spelled the same between
>the countries...smile...I hope this rediculously long answer has not
>confused you further! Val ;-)
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