[Sw-l] Revisiting Mundbildschrift

Thu Jun 27 20:56:59 UTC 2024

SignWriting List
June 27, 2024

Hello Amit, Stefan and everyone!

I have had such a remarkable and unusual day. The discussion of Mundbildschrift is very meaningful, and then our internet has been down in my home so I could not respond immediately. It just came on again. And guess who called me while I had no internet? Stefan!

Stefan is retired as a teacher of Deaf children, as you know, but he calls me sometimes and I told him - “Have you seen our discussion about Mundbildschrift on the SW List?”

And he had not realized we were talking about it!

It was a coincidence that he called me today. One of the many things he mentioned to me today was his students and he could read it like reading German words - they could and do read the symbols just like reading words and that it evolved over time - so this must be the reason why we see it changing over the years - the students wrote it by hand on the green board, so the symbols got exagerated - also remember there is the DELEGS computer program - I do not know what they have stored in their Editor program there may be symbols there.

So I believe you need to know how he constructed the special symbols, with what pieces of symbols, to make his Mundbildschrift go fast while using SignPuddle 2?

I have a lot more I can tell you but at least I am back on the internet! Thank you to the internet Gods ;-)

Also Stefan mentioned that he animated it too - 

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Val ;-)

Valerie Sutton
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> On Jun 27, 2024, at 12:24 PM, Amit Moryossef <amitmoryossef at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Val!
> Unfortunately, in his old writing, he didn't really conform to the guidebook he released - 
> for example, a long "a" sound has this strange shape in the manual:
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> but in his writing, he wrote a normal "a" like in Saal or Bahn:
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> 
> And this pattern persists with other shapes, like "ɛː" which is written as an "e" or "ç" written like an "h".
> 
> Therefore, I decided to populate the values with his writing style for now, and include the original images he made to compare.
> Here is the current version, with a comparison:
> https://github.com/sign-language-processing/signwriting/tree/main/signwriting/mouthing
> 
> Amit
> 
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 5:47 PM Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
> SignWriting List
> June 27, 2024
> 
> Hello Amit, AnnaGrace, Craxton, Stefan -
> 
> There are so many ways to find the symbols that are used to write Mundbildschrift in SignPuddle 2. Here is how I will do this, so you can see the symbols that are used from the current International SignWriting Alphabet 2010. First I went to SignPuddle 2 and chose the German flag to take me to the German Sign Language Dictionary area. Then, in the German Sign Language Dictionary, I searched for the source “SW” which stands for Stefan Woehrmann. So I found a listing of all of the signs that Stefan had written using the symbols from ISWA 2010.
> 
> So all of the signs he wrote appear in a long list. I chose this one:
> 
> https://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/canvas.php?ui=8&sgn=53&sid=3714
> 
> It is PuddlePage 3714. It is the number “1000”, tausend, written by Stefan on September 14, 2007. SignPuddle 2 will give you the FSW and the SWU for that writing, which gives you the symbols he used from the ISWA 2010 at that time. This is one of several ways to find the symbols he used that are already in FSW and SWU. I will show you other methods of searching next.
> 
> Here is a screen capture of that page:
> 
> 
> 
> > On Jun 27, 2024, at 2:26 AM, Amit Moryossef <amitmoryossef at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks, Craxton. If you could connect me with Thimo Kleyboldt that would be great.
> > 
> > And thanks Valerie! with the updated resource from 2014, and pointing out the inhale/exhale symbols, we are now done with 39/49 visemes! 
> > Only 10 more to go. If you have any ideas on how to address them, that would be great :) 
> > 
> > what are the symbols used for the mouths here?> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > for these - the mouth is specifically not round. what symbol should I alternate for?> 
> > 
> > 
> > not sure how to draw this mouth and tongue: (different than "n")> 
> > 
> > these three are also quite special, any ideas?> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 12:18 AM Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
> > SignWriting List
> > June 26, 2024
> > 
> > Hello Amit,
> > Thank you for this important interest in Mundbildschrift.
> > 
> > And thank you, Stefan Woehrmann, for giving Mundbildschrift to the world. I used to call it “SpeechWriting” in English, but others called it LipWriting or Mouth Writing ;-)
> > 
> > No matter what it was called, it is very innovative and successful.
> > 
> > Regarding documents, there are other publications on Mundbildschrift at later dates after 2010, in books as well as the internet. I will try to provide you with some links. It started to spread in Brazil too, so it is not only Germany.
> > 
> > For example, here are some published in 2014, at the SignWriting Symposium 2014:
> > 
> > https://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0002.html
> > 
> > https://www.signwriting.org/symposium/archive/sws0002_Abstract_Woerhmann's_SpeechWriting_Teaches_Spoken_Language.pdf
> > 
> > https://www.signwriting.org/symposium/archive/sws0002_01_How_I_teach_Mundbildschrift.pdf
> > 
> > https://www.signwriting.org/symposium/archive/sws0002_02_Mundbilder_in_SignWriting_and_Spelling_rules.pdf
> > 
> > https://www.signwriting.org/symposium/archive/sws0002_03_ABC_in_Mundbildschrift_For_English.pdf
> > 
> > https://www.signwriting.org/symposium/archive/sws0002_04_ABC_Tabelle_neu_SW_Deutsch.pdf
> > 
> > This one is dated 2014
> > https://www.signwriting.org/symposium/archive/sws0002_05_Overview_of_Symbols_in_Mundbildschrift_Juli_2014.pdf
> > 
> > All of the symbols in Mundbildschrift originally were based on the symbols in Sutton SignWriting, but then they were somewhat exagerated or stylized to look a little different but very close to the original…
> > 
> > For a sample, look at the attached screen capture from SWU - these are SignWriting symbols for Air - they look slightly different, but very close to the ones used in Mundbildschrift
> > 
> > And they are not arm lines!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > On Jun 26, 2024, at 8:29 AM, Amit Moryossef <amitmoryossef at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > I've been interested in writing mouthing using SignWriting, and encountered Mundbildschrift,
> > > with the latest documentation being here from 2010.
> > > 
> > > I modernized that document, collecting all the samples, correcting IPA when needed, and re-writing the SignWriting in FSW instead of using images.
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/sign-language-processing/signwriting/tree/main/signwriting/mouthing 
> > > However, as you can see, I am missing many writings, specifically ones that are not easily available, for example:> 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Therefore, I would appreciate any help to modernize this, by sending me any of the missing writing from the table or discussing alternatives. In my opinion, the writing should be efficient - I could write the last image above (with a plosive) using 6 different arms, but that seems like a waste.
> > > 
> > > Looking forward to seeing your suggestions!
> > > Amit
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> Val ;-)
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