[sw-l] Adding Classifiers to SignPuddle Dictionaries

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
March 15, 2005

On Mar 15, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Nancy Emery wrote:
> But for actually using them - since the location, movement and
> orientation
> have to be added anyway, since they depend on what is being said with
> the
> classifier, I'm not sure that it would be much more helpful to take the
> handshape from the dictionary than just to compose the sign from
> scratch....
> It's just that in certain texts some classifier constructions are used
> over
> and over, and it is nice to be able to cut, paste and modify rather
> than
> rebuild the whole thing.  But I don't know that dictionary signs can be
> modified by the user anyway...

Signs can be modified in the public SignPuddles, if you are a
Dictionary Editor with a password. I can invite you to be an Editor, if
you wish, and you could try to enter a few classifiers and then point
us to them on the web and we can all look at them...how about that? A
good way to discuss the issue...

Val ;-)