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Wayne in Maine Date: Mon Feb 14, 2000 11:54 pm Subject: Re: More on the A-dot handshape | |
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Valerie - Thanks a million for your comments re the a-dot handshape. I somehow got it into my head (for inexplicable reasons - perhaps my advancing age [!]) that that particular symbol couldn't turn. You have reassured me that my intuition was indeed correct on all counts. BTW, the right-hand palm facing on TSL "name" is towards the body, not the same as the left-hand, so I did indeed write it correctly. Thanks so much for your help. - Wayne >From: Valerie Sutton >Reply-To: SignWriting List >To: SignWriting List >Subject: Re: More on the A-dot handshape >Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 06:42:24 -0800 > >> Here's another GIF with some questions about the a-dot handshape when >>it's parallel to the floor. Should I be rotating the symbol so that looks >>more like the actual position of the thumb, or should I let the symbols be >>just that: symbols, that don't necessarily have to "look like" what they >>refer to? >> Thanks for your anticipated comments! >> - Wayne > >--------------------------------- > >Always try to write each sign as it looks....looking at your diagrams >below: > >The first one for "name" in TSL....If you were to open that handshape >into a flat hand temporarily, wouldn't the right hand have the same >palm facing as the left? If the answer is yes, then you need to have >a one-half dark, one-half light square...keeping the thumb >intuitively touching the palm of the other hand, just as you have it >now. > >The second one...I am a little baffled why you would think that the >one to the left is correct? It is most definitely not correct...the >one to the right is correct! > >I would not be able to read the one to the left...it doesn't make sense. > >Every handshape can be, and is, rotated in 8 possible >directions....that is why the Lessons In SignWriting Textbook needs >to be translated into other signed languages, so you have examples in >your own signed language...then this would become more obvious to >you. Hope this has helped! ><< _a-dot2.GIF >> ><< a-dot2.GIF >> |
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