Article in San Diego East County Magazine February 3 2011

[Bill Reese]

Val,
Maybe I don't understand punctuation.  When I translate "Hello, how you? 
fine?" in SignPuddle, I get this:

Ignoring the different signs for "you" and "fine," the punctuation seems 
to be different than what's in the SignWriting on the magazine cover.

Bill


On 2/4/2011 10:18 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
> SignWriting List
> February 4, 2011
>
> Hello Bill!
> Of course you are correct. This article is written by the editor of 
> the magazine, and has nothing to do with us, but the editor herself 
> caught her own mistakes last night and she is changing them, and now I 
> have to change the screen capture I took for the links on a series of 
> web pages that we have for the Bible translations to capture the 
> corrected grammar - so the SignWriting is not incorrect - it is well 
> written in SignWriting - but the English underneath it had a 
> mistake...it should have said  "Hello, how are you? Fine?"...you are 
> correct! You would make a good editor yourself! ;-)
>
> Val ;-)
>
> ------
>
>
> On Feb 4, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Bill Reese wrote:
>
>> Val,
>> In looking at the SignWriting on the cover of East County Magazine, 
>> there seem to be grammatical errors in both the signwriting and the 
>> English translation.  The signwriting punctuation seems to say 
>> "Hello? How are you. fine."  Of course there's the obvious error of 
>> two "are" instead of "how are" in the English translation.   Or maybe 
>> I don't understand something?  I would think what's actually being 
>> said (English translation) is "Hello, how are you? Fine?"
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> On 2/3/2011 10:33 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>>> SignWriting List
>>> February 3, 2011
>>>
>>> Dear SignWriting List!
>>>
>>> I am happy to tell you that an article about SignWriting has been 
>>> written in the San Diego East County Magazine today:
>>>
>>> The article, by editor Miriam Raftery, is about the translation of 
>>> the Gospel According to John in American Sign Language by 
>>> interpreter Nancy Romero, who is writing the entire New Testament in 
>>> ASL in SignWriting. An impressive task indeed!
>>>
>>> Thank you, Miriam, for the article, and thank you Nancy, for your 
>>> wonderful work!
>>>
>>> Val ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Article in San Diego East County Magazine
>>> http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/5347
>>>
>>> <http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/5347>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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