Frosty the Snowman gloss of first page....

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
December 27, 2009

Hello Adam, Gan and everyone!
I hope you all are having a great holiday time...

Thank you, Adam, for this response to my question about Frosty the  
Snowman:

> On Dec 27, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
>> I would agree that it looks like you are right in assuming what is  
>> meant here. And I also agree that it could be written better. ;-)  
>> Adam



...So here is my gloss of the first page of Frosty, that we are  
discussing below...I guess the "went outside" could also be "came out"  
etc....

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: frosty_translation.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 25546 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20091228/b107b1f7/attachment.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------




On Dec 27, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Adam Frost wrote:

> I would agree that it looks like you are right in assuming what is  
> meant here. And I also agree that it could be written better. ;-)
>
> Adam
>
> On Dec 24, 2009, at 11:53 AM, SignWriting wrote:
>
>> SignWriting List
>> December 24, 2009
>>
>> Hello Gan!
>>
>> Welcome to the SignWriting List!
>>
>> Great to see a message from you, on the SignWriting List. Your  
>> project sounds really amazing...Imagine wearing a glove or a suit  
>> of clothes, and as you sign, the gestures and signs are written in  
>> SignWriting...That really will be an accomplishment...
>>
>> And to inform our List members...Gan has been communicating with me  
>> privately about this project. Gan has SignWriter DOS working on  
>> DOSBox right now, smile, and has been working with an old document,  
>> Frosty the Snowman, which was written with SignWriter Java I  
>> believe...back around 1999...an entire decade ago!
>>
>> Frosty the Snowman
>> http://signwriting.org/library/children/frosty/frosty.html
>>
>> and it is this specific page that Gan and I started to discuss:
>>
>> Frosty page 1
>> http://signwriting.org/library/children/frosty/frosty01.html
>>
>> As you can see, this document is written horizontally, from left to  
>> right. If you go to the third line, second sign, what does that  
>> sign mean? I believe it was the author's sign for "going outside"  
>> or "leaving the house" or "came out"? I believe that could be  
>> written better, but first I want to be sure I am correct in my  
>> assumption...any opinions from List members?
>>
>> Anyway - Merry Christmas everyone -
>>
>> 2010 is going to be an amazing year...
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
>> Valerie Sutton
>> signwriting at mac.com
>>
>> --------------------------
>>
>>
>> On Dec 24, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Gan Lu wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all on the sw-list;
>>>
>>> I'm Gan Lu, a PhD student from the Applied Digital Signal and Image
>>> Processing Centre in the University of Central Lancashire. I  
>>> joined the
>>> signwriting list quite recently, and this is my first time of  
>>> using the
>>> mail list.
>>>
>>>
>>> Currently, I'm working on a project, Automatic hand gesture
>>> recognition for signwriting, which is to design a wearable system,  
>>> which
>>> is able to directly recognise the dynamic hand gestures of a user,  
>>> and
>>> to simultaneously translate the hand gestures into SingWriting as  
>>> well
>>> as display the SW notations on a big screen for visual feedback.
>>>
>>>
>>> Above is noly a brief introduction of my project. As now I should be
>>> able to use the signwriting list, I will share more information to  
>>> you
>>> in the future.
>>>
>>>
>>> Finally, I would like to say, those E-mails circulated amoung the
>>> signwriting list touched me a lot. I'm so pleased to meet you so
>>> wonderful and warm welcome people. I wish you all have a joyful and
>>> peaceful Christmas and a wonderful new year.
>>>
>>>
>>> God's blessing
>>> Gan
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> SignWriting <signwriting at mac.com> >>
>>> SignWriting List
>>> December 23, 2009
>>>
>>> THANK YOU for this beautiful Christmas card, Stefan!!
>>>
>>> The photo of the Nativity Scene is really lovely...
>>>
>>> Merry Christmas to you and everyone ;-)
>>>
>>> Val ;-)
>>>
>>> -------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 23, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Stefan W?hrmann wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Valerie and dear friends on the sw-list
>>>>
>>>> I wish you a Merry Christmas ....
>>>>
>>>> Attached my new greeting card -  I took this photo of the Nativity
>>>> Scene at our church in Osnabrueck.
>>>>
>>>> All the best
>>>>
>>>> Stefan ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ____________________________________________
>>>
>>> SW-L SignWriting List
>>>
>>> Post Message
>>> SW-L at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>>>
>>> List Archives and Help
>>> http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/
>>>
>>> Change Email Settings
>>> http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ____________________________________________
>>
>> SW-L SignWriting List
>>
>> Post Message
>> SW-L at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>>
>> List Archives and Help
>> http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/
>>
>> Change Email Settings
>> http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l
>>
>
>
>
>
>
> ____________________________________________
>
> SW-L SignWriting List
>
> Post Message
> SW-L at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>
> List Archives and Help
> http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/
>
> Change Email Settings
> http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l
>

-------------- next part --------------



____________________________________________

SW-L SignWriting List

Post Message
SW-L at majordomo.valenciacc.edu

List Archives and Help
http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist/

Change Email Settings
http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/sw-l