Writing Mouth Movements and video to write....

Valerie Sutton signwriting at MAC.COM
Wed Jan 28 16:20:38 UTC 2009


I know - I have that problem too with some videos and not others...I  
do not know what to do about it myself...

Val ;-)

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On Jan 28, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Charles Butler wrote:

> ..AVI I have not been able to open with Quick Time or
> any other video on my system, any help there.  This
> seems to be the standard in Europe, but I can't read
> the video.
>
> Charles
>
> --- Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> SignWriting List
>> January 28, 2009
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2009, at 7:07 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
>>> ” I would like to use Valeries words...Sometimes
>> people see videos
>>> differently so it is possible my interpretation is
>> not right...
>>> (there are no mouthmovements?? hm .. interesting)
>> Have a great day
>>> everybody
>>> Stefan
>>
>> Hello Stefan!
>> Thank you for your comments and I hope you could
>> write the hands in
>> this sign...I have attached the video of the sign
>> below...I would love
>> to see how you would write the entire sign,
>> including the mouth
>> movements!
>>
>> Of course there are mouth movements. You are
>> absolutely correct on
>> that one! And we all see them. smile
>>
>> And THANK YOU, Stefan, for the developments you have
>> created writing
>> Mouth Movements....Your work is groundbreaking and
>> very important.
>> Woehrmann's SpeechWriting is really working in Deaf
>> Education and that
>> is what matters....
>>
>> So maybe I should explain about what I say "we write
>> what we see"....
>>
>> When I say "we write what we see"....that is true,
>> but let me add
>> another second phrase..."Each writer must choose
>> WHAT to write, from
>> what they see. We do not necessarily write ALL that
>> we see at all
>> times. It depends on the purpose of the document and
>> the choice of the
>> writer, as to what they write and what they leave
>> out."
>>
>> So it is a personal choice...
>>
>> I really like reading the Mouth Movements in German
>> documents and
>> dictionaries!
>>
>> It is true that I do not write all the Mouth
>> Movements I see in
>> videos...but that does not mean it is not good to do
>> so...naturally
>> you do that because you are working with Deaf
>> children...so each
>> writer makes their choices what to leave out...
>>
>> For example, I write more Facial Expressions when I
>> write SignWriting
>> Literature. But for dictionary entries, sometimes
>> Facial Expressions
>> can change depending on the sentence in Literature,
>> so sometimes
>> placing the Facial Expressions in Dictionary entries
>> is not
>> appropriate, depending on the circumstance, or
>> perhaps in the
>> dictionary entry we can add different choices of
>> Facial Expressions
>> depending on the possible grammar of a sentence...
>>
>> So here is the sign we are trying to write....can
>> you help us? Val ;-)
>>
>>
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