Hi Valerie and list –
Would be an intersting
idea to send messages with a little typo or different spelling from time to
time to get feedback from people who are supposed to to be able to read
SignWriting ...
I try to understand the
message – written next to the Wiki-logo does it say “free know Wikipedia” -
in other words “Do you know the Wikipedia SignWriting project is for free” ...
I followed the link and
in both cases there is a typo in the fingerspelling of “Wikipedia” – perhaps the
author wants to fix that – smile?
I am not familiar with
Twitter but I understand that this is also a way to promote the idea of the
benefits of SignWriting.
All I can say – again and
again and again my deaf students take so tremendously advantage from the
bilingual documents we create and read day by day. One of my students has got a
hard time to read spoken language documents but the same boy iss able to read
the “GebaerdenSchrift” documents so fluently that all of us cannot help but
smile and laugh. And he is so motivated to catch up with reading spoken
language...
All best
Stefan
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Betreff: ASL Wikipedia has a
Twitter account ;-)
SignWriting List
October 9, 2012
Hello SignWriting List!
A friend of mine just gave our new ASL Wikipedia Project a Twitter
account…. (big smile ;-)
I am not sure how Twitter can help us, but it looks great!
ASLWikipedia on Twitter
We are trying to raise funds to help pay for software development and
hopefully, someday, we might be able to hire ASL writers to be editors and to
write lots of articles… This is a US national project. In time we hope to
encourage Wikipedias in other sign languages and countries too, of course.
Thank you to all the sign language writers in the world!
Val ;-)
Valerie Sutton
ASL articles are translations of articles
in the English Wikipedia:
1. Charles-Michel de l'Epee
2. Laurent Clerc
3. Alice Cogswell
4. City of Helen, Georgia
ASLWikipedia on Twitter