Create Vocabulary Lists with SignText Offline

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 12, 2006

Anne-Claude Prélaz Girod wrote:
> Val I don't know the difference between vobulary list and a  
> Sentence... can you please explain it to me
>  I've read the manual and used SignText already but... don't see  
> what you mean by vocabulary list!

What an interesting question! hmmm how do I explain this?

A vocabulary list can be a group of signs, whether they are related  
to each other or not...like all the sign-vocabulary used to describe  
animals, or all the signs used to conjugate the verb TO HELP...maybe  
there would be 30 ways to write the sign for HELP in ASL and the  
Vocabulary List would just list all of those signs one by one. In  
SignText they would be added to the Sentence Column, but just in the  
Center Lane.

But a sentence has a subject, a verb, puncutation, facial  
expressions, body language, and when writing in vertical columns, it  
also places signs in Lanes, to the right or to the left, depending on  
weight shifting and role shifting...and a sentence has a meaning...it  
is saying something

But a Vocabulary List is just a list of signs...maybe for a  
SignSpelling contest or something! smile...

Both Vocabulary Lists and SignSentences can be written vertically in  
SignText.

And Honza, from the Czech Republic, wanted to be able to create some  
signs in SignText that were not a part of a sentence, but just  
general vocabulary...that is how that subject came up...

In SignBank, we can also print small Vocabulary Lists, by choosing  
the signs we want to list, and then printing them...or we can print  
out the whole dictionary at one time, and that is one huge vocabulary  
list - ha!

Does this make sense?

Val ;-)

PS. I am working on getting SignBank 8.0 up on the web still...I got  
behind again...I am learning the new program myself...