Happy Birthday

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
February 22, 2009

Hello Stefan!

THANK YOU for remembering my birthday and for creating the amazingly- 
beautiful card in SignWriting, which is attached below. You are so  
kind to remember every year and I am fortunate to know you and  
everyone on the List....

And thank you too, for all your hard work all these years, and your  
courage to continue to write sign languages and to create the  
Woehrmann SpeechWriting system...It is really ingenious and I hope  
that in time people will also realize the contribution you have done  
for Deaf Education...

Your message below is touching and makes all our hard work seem worth  
all the struggle...

And I had no idea that Jason Zinza had said that quote in his book on  
Master ASL! That is good to know about that quote. Thank you, Jason!!

But it takes a lot of courage to start publishing using  
SignWriting...and you have had that courage, Stefan, by writing and  
publishing your SignWriting Handbook, and working on other books on  
SignWriting...Thank you for taking those steps forward ;-)

And I want to thank Gerard Meijssen for posting your beautiful  
Birthday card on his blog today! So your card is a hit today...Go to:

http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/

and scroll down to see your beautiful card on Gerard's blog...

I will post the card in the SignWriting Cards section later...

I am happy to know about your second book, Stefan, and I look forward  
to enjoying it in the future...we are very blessed...

Val ;-)



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On Feb 22, 2009, at 4:06 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:

> Good morning Valerie and sw-list friends,
>
> Happy birthday to YOU ... Happy birthday to YOU ... Happy birthday  
> dear Valerie ... Happy birthday to you !
>
>
> Well again we can celebrate the birthday of the inventor of this  
> genius movement writing system ...
>
> Although we know that Sign Languages can be written now there is for  
> some reason still some resistance, fear and prejudice to overcome.
>
> Nevertheless I would like to take the chance to express my feelings  
> of gratitude for all you are doing for us.  Without your input,  
> energy and trust which you put into your invention it would not have  
> grown that much. Look at the wonderful crowd of people all around  
> the word who are working on all different kinds of instruction  
> materials, software programs and SW-documents. All of this would not  
> have happened if you would share your ideas and your work in such a  
> generous way.
>
> We are really blessed to live in a time window of history when  
> writing Sign Languages become a quite normal option for those who  
> are looking for something like this.
>
> While I am busy to pile up material for my second book – I found this:
>
> “Historically there was no written form for American Sign Language.  
> Transposing a three-dimensional language that uses space, non-manual  
> signals, and motion as its primary characteristics onto paper is a  
> daunting challenge. Only recently with the advent of SignWriting  
> (TM)  has ASL become a written language, .... “
>
> Wow – this is the first time that I read such a comment from  
> somebody who is well accepted in SL- instruction. The quote obove  
> can be found in “Master ASL! Fingerspelling, Numbers, And Glossing –  
> page 129 – written by Jason E. Zinza
>
> Hopefully the same author would be interested to find more and more  
> of his wonderful graphics – illustrating ASL phrases – written in  
> SignWriting.
>
> OK – Have a wonderful Birthday with your family and hopefully you  
> will spend 2 or 4 hours away from the computer – smile
>
> I designed another birthday-card especially for you!
>
>
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