[sw-l] SignWriting Symposium ...question for organizing committee...

[Trevor Jenkins]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Kasterlinden Bilinguaal <katjesaar at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

Excellent. I would add one more purpose: an opportunity for people from
the same country to meet and discuss promotion of SignWriting in their
Deaf community. A follow on purpose would be that European can get
together and promote use of SignWriting across Europe.

> Hello,
>
> I think our main goal is to gather information, exchange thoughts and
> experiences about working with SignWriting.
>
> While visiting Stefan in Germany, Sara and I discovered that there are
> many rules and issues to be discussed about Spelling of SW and how to use
> it in educating Deaf children (and adults?)
>
> Sharing information and experience, developing good software programs and
> wondering what linguistic issues need to be discussed. Not alone, but in
> a group :)
>
> Hope this helps out a little.
>
> Greetings Kathleen
>
> >From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
> >Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> >To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> >Subject: [sw-l] SignWriting Symposium ...question for organizing
> committee...
> >Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:07:34 -0700
> >
> >SignWriting List
> >April 19, 2005
> >
> >Dear Organizing Committee for the SignWriting Symposium...
> >Please answer the question below, from the reporter Cathy
> >Hefferman...
> >
> >>What does the European Symposium set out to achieve?
> >
> >There is a deadline for the magazine article, so please post the
> >answer to this List...Many thanks!
> >
> >Val ;-)
> >
> >--------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >On Apr 19, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Cathy H wrote:
> >
> >>Hello
> >>
> >>My name is Cathy Heffernan and I am the editor of SIGNMatters, the
> >>British Deaf Association's monthly magazine. We are doing a feature
> >>on SignWriting in the June edition and I'd really appreciate it if
> >>some of you could take the time to answer some of the below
> >>questions. Any other comments would be very welcome and if anyone
> >>is interested in writing something for the feature themselves, just
> >>get in touch.
> >>
> >>SignWriting - questions
> >>what it is for
> >>why it was developed
> >>how it was developed
> >>who uses it and why
> >>is SignWriting linked to a particular sign language (like BSL, ASL)
> >>or is it  the same world-over?
> >>Does SignWriting follow the same grammatical word order and
> >>phoenetic sequence as whatever sign language it represents?
> >>Is SignWriting only suitable in certain situations or can it be
> >>used to, say, write an email?
> >>What does the European Symposium set out to achieve?
> >>
> >>As I am working to deadline I would really appreciate it if you can
> >>email back by the end of this week or mid-next week.
> >>
> >>Hope to hear from you soon!
> >>Best regards
> >>Cathy Heffernan
> >>Editor
> >>SIGNMatters
> >>British Deaf Association
> >>
> >
> >
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
>
>

Regards, Trevor

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