handwriting

[Adam Frost]

That was the reason for my post. There are still people who write by  
hand even with just learning now. And about the "predictions", they  
are really just excuses. ;-)

Adam

On Dec 9, 2008, at 1:57 PM, "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>  
wrote:

> SignWriting List
> December 9, 2008
>
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
>> I think that this discussion has been very interesting. Mainly  
>> because my sister and brother-in-law have been using SignWriting  
>> more and more. In fact, my brother-in-law just showed me a hand  
>> written collage of writings in which he is practicing. He had  
>> called me on the video phone to see if he was writing signs  
>> correctly. He also showed me a hand written note from my sister to  
>> him. They are both at the stage in learning where they look up the  
>> words in the dictionary, which is quite normal for beginning. As I  
>> was writing this, my brother-in-law called me back to ask me how to  
>> write a sign that was not in the dictionary. He had some  
>> difficulty, but he will get the hang of it. I just think it is  
>> interesting he is mostly writing by hand, which is what we have  
>> been talking about.
>
> This is wonderful, Adam! Your family members and friends are welcome  
> to join the SignWriting List...and I created a Mexican Literature  
> Puddle for them too...
>
> But I want to share with you a funny irony...
>
> SignWriting will be 35 years old in 2009.
>
> In the first decade of SignWriting, from 1974-1984, there was ONLY  
> writing by hand. There was nothing else. We developed the Shorthand  
> in 1981-1984 too, and people said to me that SignWriting would still  
> fail because "it can never be written by machine"...
>
> Then, in the second and third decades, we worked and focused on  
> developing "machines to write SignWriting", and now we have  
> accomplished that in different ways, to such an extent, that new  
> students oftentimes learn on computers without learning to write by  
> hand first. Now, according to Stuart, we are told that SignWriting  
> will fail because "it cannot be written by hand?"...smile...  
> or..."it cannot be written by hand fast enough"...
>
> and all those predictions of failure have ALWAYS been  
> false...SignWriting is still here, 35 years later, and we have BOTH  
> writing by machine and writing by hand...it is a matter of choice  
> and education...
>
> Your brother-in-law is learning SignWriting by writing by hand, and  
> that is the way the writing system started...
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
>
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