POLAND... the spelling of Antarktyda

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 4, 2005

On Sep 4, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Lucyna Dlugolecka wrote:
> Hmm... I am about to give up... I thought the symbol in the middle  
> of the diagram is for the thumb sticking up... I'm worried :-/
> Lucy
>

Smile...Do not be worried. This is why I am here...to explain what is  
happening with the writing system. This is a very old symbol, and it  
is one that needs to be updated badly.

Stefan already changed the symbol in his new book. And this means  
that I will have to add a variation to the symbol in the IMWA, but I  
have not gotten to that yet...

The old SignWriter DOS program still types it this old way, and so we  
are caught between the old writing and the new writing.

For now, I am trying to explain the OLD writing of this symbol, which  
is all we have in the IMWA right now, and in all other computer  
programs too...

If you go to this E-lesson, you can see the explanation for it ...

http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/elessons/less016.html

as you can see attached:

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