[sw-l] New Website

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 24, 2004

Hello Bill and Sandy!
The word "lightning" or "lightening" mean the same thing in several 
dictionaries. Take a look at this web page and see how they intermixed 
the spellings:

http://oror.essortment.com/lighteningsafet_rfep.htm

So Bill, I don't think that is a problem! British English is different 
than American English too...I was quite amazed at how different it is, 
when I briefly visited there, and it was very enjoyable to learn the 
differences too...

The most difficult for me was the term "Certified Teachers" which was 
the term we were using years ago...after visiting Scotland, I changed 
the term to Qualified Teachers for SignWriting, because I learned that 
in the UK, "certified" means "certifiable"...in other words...a person 
who was entered into an insane asylum and was certified insane!

Val ;-)

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On Oct 24, 2004, at 10:57 AM, Bill Reese wrote:

>  Sandy,
>
>  I took a look at the website and while testing the links, I noticed a 
> couple of dictionary anomalies on the British SignPuddle site.  The 
> gloss "lightening" should be "lightning", unless the British spell it 
> different than Americans.   Also, "Work" is capitalized.
>  The website itself shows a good foundation.  It's clean and easy to 
> navigate.  My only suggestion is to have the links to other sites open 
> a new window.  I would rather stay at a main page with the links and 
> examine the links separately than navigate away from the main page 
> when clicking on a link.  Just a personal preference.
>
>  I'm on an XP PRO machine, using Netscape 7.1 as my browser and it 
> worked fine.
>
>  Bill
>
>
>
>  Sandy Fleming wrote:
>
> Guess what I forgot?
>
> The site URL is http://bsltext.org/
>
> :)
>
> Sandy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of Sandy Fleming
> Sent: 24 October 2004 15:40
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Subject: [sw-l] New Website
>
>
> Hi All!
>
> I've _finally_ got round to setting up a SignWriting website for BSL.
>
> The idea is to encourage BSL users to submit their own writing
> and ideas for
> showcasing on the site, but so far I only have one piece of content: a
> cartoon. Still, you can have a look at it. Any mistakes, point
> them out! As
> soon as I put the logo up I realised there was a mistake - I've
> written the
> sign for "text" as the usual sign for horizontal text - maybe I should
> change it to say "vertical text"  :)
>
> Next I'll be trying to add a variety of signwriting samples and then 
> I'll
> start encouraging visitors to submit their own.
>
> Any comments on site organisation or anything (even at this early 
> stage)
> would be welcome.
>
> Sandy
>
>
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>
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