[Sw-l] Japanese Translation for Signwriting? (Also, an Introduction)

Mon Jan 31 00:04:13 UTC 2022

Dear Adam Frost,...* Adam Frost‽*

Oh wow... I cannot believe I am responding to one of the greatest
contributors of Signwriting!
I absolutely *admire* your work on *SignWriting Hand Symbols 2014*! I have
been reading your pdf almost every day for the last few weeks!
Your dictionary that lists the picture of handshapes next to the
signwriting have helped me understand the system *tremendously* and I could
not be where I am today without the fantastic document that you and Valerie
have created 8 years ago. Quite literally, I refer to your book whenever I
encounter an unknown signwritten symbol or when I want to write a handsign
that I do not know the symbol to.

So, from the bottom of my heart, I must tell you:
*Thank you for all of your amazing work. *

I did go to Tokyo a couple of years ago and teach SignWriting to several
> Deaf community members from the Edogawa Deaf Association ... I am not sure
> if they translated the teaching material into Japanese, but that would be
> the first place I would look.
>
You have!? Well, thank you so much for visiting Japan! I am so delighted to
know that signwriting was actually being taught in Japan as well!
Okay, this is new information for me. The next thing I will do is to write
a letter to 江戸川ろう者協会 *deaf at edodeaf.com <deaf at edodeaf.com> *regarding about
the Japanese translations and see if they would kindly reply...

*Thank you so much for all of your help!*

────川音リオ＠KawaneRio

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 4:33 AM Adam Frost <icemandeaf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello 川音リオ＠KawaneRio,
>
> I did go to Tokyo a couple of years ago and teach SignWriting to several
> Deaf community members from the Edogawa Deaf Association. I think there
> might be a couple from there on the list or they might be on the Facebook
> page. I am not sure if they translated the teaching material into Japanese,
> but that would be the first place I would look.
>
>
> Adam
>
> On Jan 30, 2022, at 6:43 AM, 川音リオ <rio.kawane at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Uhh... I have never used maillists in my life before, so I hope I'm doing
> this right...
>
>
> So, um, hello to everyone reading this message. I'm 川音リオ＠KawaneRio, an
> ordinary grammatologist from Virtual Japan.
>
>
> Before I ask my question for the day, I just wanted to say, to dear
> Valerie Sutton,
>
> I Thank you. So much. For your *extraordinary* work on making a complete
> writing system for sign languages.
> I first found out about your work in a book called *The World's Writing
> Systems* by* Peter T. Daniels and William Bright. *Your name was
> mentioned just briefly among other inventors of various notations for
> symbols of signing, movement, dancing, et cetera. However, the exquisite
> writing system that you had illustrated definitely left a reverence toward
> you along with this fuzzy sentiment for what could be possible with this. I
> tried learning about your system when I was in gradeschool, but I did not
> have the resources nor the knowledge to understand everything other than
> the fact that such system existed.
> But recently, especially around 2021, my life has changed. I was spending
> more time on Virtual Reality than Real Life on some days, communicating
> with people around the globe as if they were right next to me (it's like
> the invention of telephone all over again🤣).
>
> In case you have not heard of Virtual Reality, it's a technology where you
> can communicate with others, but in 3D; almost like a video game with lots
> of players, except those players are real people and not a random character
> made by the game.
>
> The amazing thing about this "Virtual Reality", or VR for short, is that
> it allows you to see the hand and head movement of other people in real
> time! People Hard of Hearing, or even those who are deaf can play in VR
> given that they don't get headaches and eyestrains. However, there is a
> catch: most people are limited to just 7 handsigns with the game
> controllers available today. One of the most wellknown deaf communities in
> the Virtual World, known as *Helping Hands*, has proposed a way for
> Deaf/HoH users to communicate by using a special dialect of ASL, limited by
> just mere 7 handsigns! Thus, VRASL was created; not just by anyone, but by
> the community of deaf users and certified teachers of sign languages.
>
> Meanwhile, in Virtual Japan, there is a growing community of deaf/mute
> users, also known as 無言勢(mugon-zei). The thing with Japan though is that,
> even though there is a massive demand for Japanese Sign Language, also
> known as 日本手話(Nihon Shuwa, NS for short) in the growing community, unlike
> ASL, there are not many resources! When it comes to VRJSL; well, the
> resources are *nonexistent*.
>
> My mission here, as a fellow grammatologist, is to make a free and open
> dictionary for Virtual Reality Japanese Sign Language, or VRJSL for short,
> available for anyone to view and use for the Virtual World!
>
>
> Sorry that was a bit longer than I had initially expected. Now, for the
> question:
>
> Are there any Japanese or Chinese translations of technical terms used in
> SuttonSignWriting? Specifically, I am looking for Japanese translations of "*Perspective
> View*" and "*Top View*", but if there is a comprehensive glossary of
> technical terms (especially for each of the handsigns) translated in other
> languages already, I would love to know as it would help me *immensely*
> in making my dictionary!
>
>
> Thank you so much for your time reading this rather stilted loft about
> myself, but I would honestly appreciate any help on the Japanese
> Translation topic.
>
>
> では〱。
>
>
>
> ────川音リオ＠KawaneRio
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