writing signlanguage

[Kimberley A. Shaw]

Yes, but you *are* seeing the people on the screen, as well as the words!
I would say that written English and spoken English are definitely
different. Sometimes the differences are subtle, sometimes not -- but
occasionally I find myself writing something down that is nothing like the
way I would express myself if I were speaking it instead!
So, the more we SignWrite, the more we'll find out (by doing) just how to
get signed languages to make sense on the written page and what needs to
be added to make that happen ... something we take so for granted in
spoken languages, that I think we don't even think to notice the kinds of
things we need to add when writing to make up for the absence of 
face-to-face presence!
-- Kim from Boston

sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu on Friday, September 02, 2005 at 5:54 PM
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>sorry at first I didn't udnerstand your message as it is. I imagine 
>something else.
>anyway I don't know how to write it down.
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>about written and spoken languages - there I don't see any differences. 
>For example subtitles - it is the same as on the screen.
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>Honza
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>Lucyna Dlugolecka wrote:
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>> Sign languages are still young languages (like kreols, ha!), so don't 
>> care about the literary style now ;-).
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>> Lucy
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Honza" <honza at ruce.cz>
>> To: <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
>> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:45 PM
>> Subject: Re: [sw-l] writing signlanguage
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>>> Lucyna,
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>>> yes, sure I know as you know, but it is not easy to write almost all 
>>> the signs in that way I wrote about.
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>>> Honza
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