| SignWriting List Archive 1 October 1997 - May 1998 |
April 6, 1998
MESSAGE TO THE SIGNWRITING EMAIL LIST
SUBJECT: Message #1 from Brazil...
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 10:39:19 -0400
From: "Delamar Weber & Ronice M. de Quadros" <dweber@neca.com>
To: SignWriting <DAC@SignWriting.org>
Subject: Message #1 from Brazil...
Hello everyone!
We have work in Brazil with SignWriting. The teacher Marianne
Stumpf is teaching SignWriting to students from the levels equivalent
to junior and high schools. She begins to notice some things
that I think to be important to discuss on the list. Marianne
accepted to have her comments translated to English and posted
in the list.
They are the following:
1) the students from high school are learning SignWriting faster
than the young students. This seems to be related with the knowledge
of sign language;
2) some students don't enjoy to write in SignWriting;
3) it seems that SignWriting needs to be simplified because there
are too much symbols and this is difficult to remember when people
are writing.
Marianne's last comment:
I hope that you can solve these problems!
Ronice Müller de Quadros
dweber@neca.com