what do you think of these ASL and SASL videos?

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
March 31, 2008

Hello Cherie and Everyone -
I downloaded both free demos...one for South African Sign Language and  
one for ASL...I think the software is very nicely designed and it  
works well...

And thank you, Cherie, for your input...I thought the ASL version had  
nice quality videos and I certainly recognized many of the signs...It  
is interesting to me to see how hard it is to create good  
dictionaries...If signs are not exactly the same as we sign it, it  
feels funny...but I would assume that it must be dialectical or  
regional differences...

What interests me is something else entirely...

I am interested in finding software that would give us permission to  
place the SignWriting for each sign, near the videos...Developing the  
actual software for the video dictionary is a lot of work, and it  
would be nice not to have to re-invent the wheel for the software  
development itself...if we could get permission from the publishers to  
use their software to add the SignWriting...so I would assume if we  
made an arrangement like that, that we could also add our own videos  
too...

Remember that other one...the Rocket Signs videos that had a free demo  
a while ago?...I thought their software format was nice too...and they  
are located near Adam Frost north of Los Angeles...I am considering  
contacting them about permission to use their videos to add  
SignWriting...

Anyway...when we wrote a dictionary years ago between Danish Sign  
Language and American Sign Language in SignWriting, I was surprised  
how hard it was to create a dictionary that everyone was happy  
with...people's signs vary, just as spoken language words vary, and  
dictionaries make people accept the fact that words are pronounced  
differently from region to region, so all those dialects have to be  
included in the dictionary I guess!

One of our big projects that I hope to start in 2009, it to publish a  
truly wonderful and comprehensive bilingual ASL dictionary written in  
SignWriting...In the past we have had small ones, but we need a large  
and expanding Dictionary project...

The following books in ASL are on our list to be published...the exact  
dates are not set...

SignWriting Publications
Cat in the Hat Storybook
Gospel According to John (21 Chapters)
Sleeping Beauty Storybook
Cinderella Storybook
Book of Mother Goose Rhymes
Snow White Workbook
Snow White Storybook
Fable Tortoise & the Hare
ASL Bilingual Dictionary (videos and book)

and let's not forget an ASL Encyclopedia, which will start on  
Wikipedia in the future!

Wonderful projects all...

Val ;-)


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On Mar 31, 2008, at 3:46 AM, Cherie Wren wrote:

> I downloaded the ASL demo.  Some of the handshapes are strange.  I  
> wonder, since its paired with South African SL, if its not - 
> American- ASL.  ASL is used in other places besides here, so maybe  
> that could explain the strange handshapes in "ASL."  The few signs  
> shown are familiar, if a bit English.  A couple have movements that  
> are not quite what I am used to-- could be regional, could be the  
> same thing as the handshapes.
>
> cherie
>
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