[sw-l] im a very poor salesman of the SW!

[Shane Gilchrist Ó hEorpa]

Val & I had a wee talk way back - to see if it is okay for me to use some
from her excellent books and have it amended to accommodate NISL and ISL -
it is important to have some template to base NISL/ISL on - and maybe my
work, the SLCB, can do that for BSL as we have the duty to cover GB as well
- but that will be a good while although anyway.

If Val can't do that, perhaps you and I can meet up (the next time im in
England) and discuss the manual - maybe with Trevor in attendance - to see
if we can come up with a wee manual you suggested?

Mmmmh?

The biggest obstacle in England is that most SW manuals are in ASL which is
a big turn-off :( - and BSL users can't identify with it - so we do need a
BSL manual for England...

Shane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu [mailto:owner-sw-
> l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] On Behalf Of Sandy Fleming
> Sent: 06 March 2005 14:50
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Subject: RE: [sw-l] im a very poor salesman of the SW!
>
> Hi List!
>
> As far as being a SW salesman goes, I can get people interested but I
> can't
> get them to actually get round to looking at the SW pages on the Web.
>
> So I tried printing off a copy of the SW manual so I could give it to
> anyone
> who was interested, since people often like to read paper books that they
> wouldn't want to read them on the Web.
>
> The problem is that it's two inches thick and they always hand it back
> because they reckon they don't need to look inside it to know that it's
> far
> too complicated!
>
> What I really need is a manual that gives a good introduction to SW in
> say,
> 20 or 40 pages.
>
> One problem with the manual as it stands is that there a lot of
> introductory
> pages with photos of people, and then there are pages with huge pictures
> of
> handshapes, and most pages have a lot of white space or list all possible
> orientations of every handshape - and not just the ones needed to write,
> say, ASL.
>
> Isn't there a slimmer version of the manual in PDF that I could hand to
> someone without it getting rejected as an impossibly fat book?
>
> Sandy
>