Sign Proccessing Software

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 17, 2004

Smile...this is an interesting subject...I am grateful for your 
support, Adam...and for other Deaf people whom I worked with over the 
years...and to Susan Diamond Bucher, who is a CODA, and who also worked 
with us years ago...all of us just used the terminology we are 
using....it may not be exactly as others would choose, but it worked 
for us! So if I have the Deaf Community's support, that is all that 
really matters for me...but I do understand the other issues...Every 
profession has its own unique terminology...and the truth 
is...SignWriting is almost like another profession at times, with its 
own terminology that is not based on what came before, but what is 
accepted now, for the group of people we are 
servicing...smile...well...we just fell into a pattern of talking about 
it that became unique to SignWriting...Meanwhile other professions are 
welcome to use other terminology to describe SignWriting...whatever 
works for them, so that their group can understand this new 
development...

Val ;-)



On Jun 17, 2004, at 8:38 AM, Adam Frost wrote:

> I agree with you Val. I think that the main reason there is such a
> distintion between spoken language terms and sign language terms is 
> because
> for too long sign language was not considered a language. So by using
> different terms, it isn't mistaken for spoken languages (like Val
> mentioned); and I think that it forces hearing people who thought that 
> sign
> languages weren't really languages to see that it truly is. It causes 
> them
> to not adimaticaly think spoken languages. Yes, the terms that are 
> used for
> spoken languages can be used to descibe SL, but for these reasons it 
> isn't.
>
> Adam
>
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