by
Leland McCleary
University
of São Paulo
Currents in Electronic Literacy Spring 2001 (4), <http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/spr01/mccleary.html>
Endnotes
24. From what has been said before, it should be clear that a transcription, even if done in a sign language script, will not satisfy the requirement of being fully intelligible to a wide audience of deaf readers; first, because it is a transcription, and therefore not fluent text; second, because the writing system, even though appropriate to the language, is not yet widely understood.