SignWriting List members….As you can see by this demonstration that Stefan shows below, if you see a sign from another sign language you do not understand, you can “Search by Symbols” within that SignPuddle dictionary for that sign language, and figure out the word-meaning by finding the sign by the SignWriting symbols…and then looking up the corresponding spoken language word in Google translate to find the meaning -

On Oct 2, 2015, at 6:56 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Valerie, Cherie and SW-list members ..

I agree ... SW within cartoons is a funy and perhaps successful way to introduce SignWriting to the public.

I looked at this cartoon very carefully and ..just as Cherie mentioned ... no it is not ASL ...it is Libras and I do not know Libras ...

I was eager to find my way to understand the written text ...

Sign by sign I looked at the “Search by symbol” feature of SignPuddle ... mh .. I found most of the signs in the Brazilian SignPuddle this way ... but since I do not understand Portugese as well I asked Google-Translator for help ..ha and in the end I felt successfull.

Well ... almost ... ;-(

When I searched for the original cartoon with the writing in English it allowed a quite better undrestanding... Nevertheless a wonderful idea

All best

Stefan

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