POLAND... PJM and SW lesson as part of Science Festival

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 25, 2005

Hello Lucyna and Everyone!
What a wonderful report from Warsaw, Poland...I am so happy to read  
about this...Thank you for informing us and congratulations!

Ouch! Falling down on the floor can hurt (smile), but the movements  
of falling and landing on the floor and getting up again can all be  
written in Movement Writing!

Maybe it would be fun to write that and give it to your  
professor...we could even write the dialogue of two people falling  
and helping each other up - ha!

Val ;-)

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Lucyna Dlugolecka from Poland wrote:
> I would like to report on a PJM and SW lesson held by Romuald  
> Szurik and me as part of the Science Festival of Warsaw. The event  
> is organized every year by all the Warsaw universities and its  
> purpose is to share the knowledge with so called ordinary people in  
> the street. Our Computer Linguistics Unit of the University of  
> Warsaw prepared three lessons:
> 1. Silent Foreigners Among Us: The Deaf, Their History, Language(s)  
> and Culture (by Prof. Marek Swidzinski, linguist)
> 2. How to "speak" Sign Langauage(s) (by Romuald Szurik and me)
> 3. Sign to me! Sign2Baby System (by Danuta Mikulska).
>
> It went all good, the lecture room was full of audience and even  
> the press recorded the lessons. And there was a funny point, as  
> after all the lessons the professor wanted to hug me and we both  
> fell down onto the floor! Yeah, Shane was right when he said I was  
> never short of drama :-))).
>
> But we are happy now as it was the first time that ordinary people  
> learned (from us or from the press) that PJM is a true langauge and  
> that SignWriting exists :-).
>
> Lucy
> deafie at gmx.net
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