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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Feb 7, 2001 5:48 am Subject: Re: Brazilian Sign | |
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On 2/6/01, Charles Butler wrote: >This looks to me like the ASL sign for "wet". Is this correct Valerie? >The orientation of the hands is very similar and it would keep it >from being mistaken for either the "meeting" orientation, or the >"give" orientation. SignWriting List February 6, 2001 Yes...the orientation of the hands in those ASL signs are similar, Charles, that is true. And I see you have posted another message about those signs...thanks for that! However, the new chart that I just posted, and Stefan's chart, and the charts Steve and Dianne Parkhurst included in their textbook SignoEscritura...all of these charts have made some changes to the way those signs would be written. The new charts give more structure and rules. Before we were totally flexible. We wrote as we felt it looked and didn't worry about it very much. We chose a lot of diagonals...it was a different way of thinking. And it worked too, since people always read those signs well. It is hard to know if the rules really matter that much, but we are trying them to see. Who knows what will happen in the end...only time will tell. The ASL dictionary in SignWriter 4.3 was completed in 1995. So it is 6 years old now...all dictionaries are out-of-date within 6 years, since new writing conventions, new vocabulary etc develops continually, and such changes are usually added in future dictionaries. So maybe we can add new ways of spelling these signs to the ASL dictionary someday. I look forward to sharing more about this later - Thanks for your messages everyone! -- Val ;-> ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l To post a message to the SW List: |
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