Create Vocabulary Lists with SignText Offline

[Anne-Claude Pr=?ISO-8859-1?B?6Q==?=laz Girod]

great!! I was using sign text for vocaulary (and not sentences...) but when
you said there was a difference I wondered if I had missed something! Thanks
for these explanations! It's clear for me now!

Anny

> De : "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at SignWriting.org>
> Répondre à : sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Date : Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:33:47 -0700
> À : sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Objet : Re: [sw-l] Create Vocabulary Lists with SignText Offline
> 
> 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...
> 
> 
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