Hi Adam,
yes – I like your
second translation and writing very much. Easy to read, easy to understand... ;-)
All best
Stefan .
Von: SignWriting
List: Read and Write Sign Languages [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von Adam Frost
Gesendet: Sonntag, 8. September
2013 17:24
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Betreff: Re: help with writing an
ASL sentence for an academic paper
Here is a new translation. I feel that this is better than the one that
I had done before.
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Glossing
of the above sentence:
THIS/HERE
EXAMPLE SENTENCE, ASL, SIGNWRITING.
Translation of the above sentence:
This example sentence is in ASL and SignWriting.
The first
3 signs are topicalized because of the brow raising followed by a pause. The
last two signs are separated by a pause to signify "and". I did think
about wether or not I should place them in left and right lanes, but then
decided against it because I am not comparing the two concepts.
You might
notice that I completely avoided the use of "written" and
"with". Part of it was because it was giving me a struggle in how to
translate it, but also because I realized that the sentence was actually making
two statements: this is an ASL example and that it was written in SignWriting.
When I played with writing two separate sentences, I realized that if I were
talking with my friends that I would just say "This is in
SignWriting" rather than "This is written in SignWriting", so I
went with the idea that the example is in ASL and SignWriting.
Adam
Courtesy
of SignBank.org
On Sep 7, 2013, at 4:41 PM, maria galea wrote:
Dear list members particularly ASL users,
A friend of mine who happens to be a linguist in the field of writing
systems of the world is hoping to include the mentioning of SignWriting as a
writing system of the world, and he has asked if someone could translate the
following sentence into ASL SignWriting:
"This is an American sign language example written with
SignWriting "
If you could add sign-to-meaning correspondences, syntactic
factors, and lexical selection considerations would be helpful for him.
Thank you! It would be great if SignWriting makes its way
into the academic field of writing systems, so thank you very much for helping
out with this (i can't do it myself, because I'm not an ASL user)
best regards to everyone!
maria