writing signlanguage

Lucyna Dlugolecka deafie at GMX.NET
Fri Sep 2 21:37:51 UTC 2005


> Hi everybody,
>
> now when I started use SignMail I recognised I had some troubles writing 
> sign language in mail.
> Why? I recognised that in common communication you (of course) have your 
> communication parthner, so it is interactive communication. You can react 
> and reply now, again and again.
> But In SignMail, your communication parthner is not preset.
>
> How do you feel about this:
> In common communication are rarely used signs like ME, YOU because it is 
> clear and you can show it by your face. But in signmail it is not easy. If 
> you like to do it, you have to add this and that face almost in any sign.. 
> So I can use signs ME, YOU instead of face, but it is not very natural and 
> that is how I found it, because I had troubles where to use this signs.
> Maybe in other languages it is used more and you don;t have this trouble.
>
> have a nice weekend around the world ;-)
> Honza
>

Honza, there are so called written and spoken languages. For example, spoken 
Czech is not exactly the same as written Czech, isn't? :-) It's the same 
with sign languages. "Spoken" SL is a bit different than written SL :-).

Lucy 



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