[Sw-l] Generosity always wins

Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway erhoffma at OBERLIN.EDU
Wed Oct 21 02:03:40 UTC 2015


Lovely writing and sentiment!

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com> wrote:

> SignWriting List
> October 20, 2015
>
> I wanted to read the sentence Stefan posted (see attached), so I started
> by entering the German SignPuddle Dictionary online (
> http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=8&sgn=53), and I
> clicked on the icon Search by Symbols (Symbole). I searched for the
> handshape in the middle, the second sign with a fist. It was found …It was
> the German word for “win”… So then I realized that Stefan was translating
> the phrase “Generosity always wins” in German signs…To be sure of this, I
> opened Google Translate, and typed the phrase in English, and found the
> phrase in German: "Großzügigkeit gewinnt immer.” Then I went back to
> SignPuddle Online and looked up the signs for “Großzügigkeit" and “immer”.
> So I was right!
>
> THANK YOU, Stefan, for this written sentence, and THANK YOU, Steve, for
> programming and giving us SignPuddle Online ;-)
>
> Anytime you see a sentence written in a foreign sign language, you can
> find out what it means this way -
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
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>
>
>
> On Oct 20, 2015, at 4:25 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann <
> stefanwoehrmann at GOOGLEMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Associate Professor
Oberlin College
On leave academic year 2015-2016

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