by
Leland McCleary
University
of São Paulo
Currents in Electronic Literacy Spring 2001 (4), <http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/spr01/mccleary.html>
Endnotes
23. With a sign language script, Brazilian Sign Language will pass through a stage of orthographic uncertainty such as English experienced in the 15th century, when William Caxton himself wrote “communication” as “commynycacyon” (McCrumm, Cran & MacNeil, 1986:86). This orthographic uncertainty, also as in the time of Caxton, must be resolved in the face of tremendous local and regional language diversity, typical of any widespread unwritten language.