I have never heard of si5s either! I'm grateful that this was brought to
our attention. I googled it and the wikipedia general information came up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si5s

i might need to take a look at his thesis - if anyone has a link to his
work, or a contact of the person who created this system, would be good to
try and trace him..at first glance - comparing the written versions of
that ASL sign, there seem to be similarities between SignWriting and si5s
- i really would like to investigate this!!

maria


> I have the book for si5s and have discussed some with Adrean Clark who
> wrote the book. Since I am interested in writing sign languages in
> general,
> I figured I might as well find out more about their system.
>
> One major difference between si5s and SignWriting is that si5s is not
> interested in being able to record all the details of the signing. Where
> SignWriting can be used to be as detailed or as simple as you want, si5s
> is
> intended to be as minimal as possible (or so I understand). In some cases,
> you may not be able to be as specific with si5s as you can with
> SignWriting. That's an intentional design decision. New symbols are added
> only if it is absolutely necessary to be readable. At least, that is how I
> understand the approach.
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Valerie Sutton
> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> SignWriting List
>> February 21, 2013
>>
>> Hello Bill and everyone -
>>
>> Yes, the article below had an interesting diagram showing the sign for
>> HOUSE written in several systems, including SignWriting, Stokoe,
>> ASLphabet
>> (never heard of this one), SignFont and Si5S� surprisingly they did not
>> mention HamNoSys!
>>
>> Here is the diagram from that article:
>> http://allthingslinguistic.tumblr.com/post/43351572497/signwriting-in-asl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I think this is a fascinating diagram - eh? ;-))
>>
>> regarding your questions about Si5S �I do not know too much about it.
>> Adam
>> Frost can tell you more than I can. I have never heard of the middle one
>> called ASLphabet - have you heard of that one, Bill?
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
>> ----------
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 21, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Bill Reese <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> In reading that post, I noticed something called si5s, which I've never
>> seen before. I would like to study it more - but to do so I'd need to
>> buy
>> the book. That makes me wonder... Is it just a commercial venture or a
>> valid attempt to write ASL in a simplified manner?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> This was sent from my Linux Kubuntu machine! http://www.kubuntu.org/
>> On 02/20/2013 08:07 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>>
>> SignWriting List
>> February 20, 2013
>>
>> All Things Linguistic: *SignWriting* in
>> *ASL*<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://allthingslinguistic.tumblr.com/post/43351572497/signwriting-in-asl&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgBIAEoATAAOABAv7aViQVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=dcY52l9KBdw&usg=AFQjCNEU2Vedt9er5wLfVgGCfvn2ioT4uA>
>> *SignWriting* in *ASL* thelegalizeddeafies: � I've been ASLing my whole
>> life. In my free time, I study*ASL* linguistics and its structures
>> including grammers and rules.
>>
>> http://allthingslinguistic.tumblr.com/post/43351572497/signwriting-in-asl
>>
>>
>>
>>
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