Happy birthday

[Erika Hoffmann]

Happy (slightly early) birthday Val!!!
I hope you will have a special day!
Love,
Erika

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>wrote:

> SignWriting List
> February 21, 2011
>
> Hello Stefan and Everyone!
>
> It is February 22 in Germany now....Here in California it is still February
> 21st ;-)
>
> Thank you, Stefan, for always remembering my birthday. You have taught me
> how important birthdays are...they give us pause, don't they? To think about
> what we have done in our years here on this earth, and think about what we
> wish for the future...
>
> I will be 60 years old in 16 hours (smile)... a new decade for me...
>
> and I am planning to live another 60 years, so I am only half way through
> and certainly not done!! ha!
>
> And everyone - look at the wonderful card that Stefan wrote - it is written
> in ASL in SignWriting on the right, but on the left, Stefan has written the
> movements of the lips speaking English words...called Woehrmann's
> SpeechWriting, which is Stefan's unique invention, writing the sounds of the
> IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) with lip, mouth and breath symbols
> that are originally based on SignWriting symbols, but Stefan has expanded
> the amount of symbols further, to be able to capture the refined movements
> of speech...and Stefan has developed a standardized way to write the
> movements of speech around the world -
>
> Recently, Fernando Capovilla from Brazil has been working with Stefan
> behind the scenes, and Stefan developed a way to write spoken Portuguese
> with the feedback of Fernando's team in Brazil - it is just so amazing to
> watch all these brilliant people work together -
>
> So thank you, Stefan, for writing my birthday wishes, and my name, in
> Mundbildschrift (SpeechWriting)... I will treasure the card always ;-)
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
> Valerie Sutton
>
>
>
> ---------
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 21, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
>
> This is another kind of Happy Birthday document.
>
> Mundbildschrift  - “Woehrmanns SpeechWriting” – next ti SignWriting - ;-)
>
> Can you read it?
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------
>
>
>
> Val ;-)
>
> Valerie Sutton
> SignWriting List moderator
> sutton at signwriting.org
>
> Post Messages to the SignWriting List:
> sw-l at listserv.valenciacc.edu
>
> SignWriting List Archives & Home Page
> http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist
>
> Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages
> http://listserv.valenciacc.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1
>
>
>


-- 
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/sw-l/attachments/20110221/3536fda1/attachment.htm>