Whose document is this? ;-)
Sandy Fleming
sandy at SCOTSTEXT.ORG
Sun Oct 23 19:39:01 UTC 2005
Val,
Yeah, fine :)
Sandy
Valerie Sutton wrote:
> SignWriting List
> October 23, 2005
>
> Hello Sandy and Everyone!
> What a wonderful example of Handwriting, Sandy...Your writing is so
> clear and easy to read...I would like to place this on the Great
> Britain web area...ok with you?
>
> SignWriting in Great Britain
> http://www.SignWriting.org/uk
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> Thanks again for sharing it with us!
>
> Val ;-)
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> Sandy Fleming in the UK wrote:
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>> I recognised my own handwriting immediately, but only remember it
>> vaguely. I think this was in response to a challenge on the list to
>> put a given verse of some kind into SignWriting. So it's British
>> Sign Language and I translated it back as:
>>
>> One of us shall become a monarch
>> And sit upon a throne of gold.
>> Wearing not a hat, but a crown.
>> Lots of diamonds shall be his/hers
>> A beautiful robe of gold and green
>> As I always understood, (s)he'll wear a feather, I wonder?
>> I decided (s)he definitely should
>>
>> After searching the Web for "gold and green" I came across this,
>> which is from "Regular Royal Queen" by Gilbert and Sullivan (which
>> explains why it's called GandS.gif!):
>>
>> Then one of us will be a Queen,
>> And sit on a golden throne,
>> With a crown instead
>> Of a hat on her head,
>> And diamonds all her own! With a beautiful robe of gold and green,
>> I've always understood;
>> I wonder whether
>> She'd wear a feather?
>> I rather think she should!
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