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Ingvild Roald Date: Wed Feb 7, 2001 11:21 pm Subject: Re: Brazilian Sign | ||||||||
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This is what I thought too. I completely agree. Ingvild >From: Charles Butler >Reply-To: SignWriting List >To: SignWriting List >Subject: Re: Brazilian Sign >Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 01:51:52 -0500 > >Well, Val,. > >I am concerned at this latest. The Parkhurst book may be published, but if >it is consistently applied to all handshapes--the purpose of a writing >sysem--then there are no diagonals for any sign at all, including flat >hands, pointer fingers, and any other handshape, and that is just plain >wrong, regardless of charts or graphs. Objects do move diagonally. Hands >are held in diagonal positions and the writing system and the computer >software should not only accomodate it, but use it. > >If you do not write a diagonal orientatiom on one handshape, then that >should, if it is to be consistent, applied everywhere. If my writing is 25 >years old--and still readable after 25 years, then there is something >seriously wrong with a new system that can look at my old handshapes and >declare them "unreadable" under a new system. I have not ever wrote as I >"felt like it". I have tried to be consistent, extremely careful, and >write >precisely the orientation which my hand actually has, not a "convention" >which uses only right angles. > >The 4.3 system gives 45 degree angles in its rotational possibilities for >all handshapes. If they aren't to be used in this system, then they should >not be possible to produce on the software anywhere, and you-yourself, >typed >every one of those orientations. The purpose of the software is to produce >a uniform, clearly typed system. If an "upgrade" removes a whole set of >handshape orientations, then the system being taught is WRONG, not the >software. I honestly believe the Parkhurst book to be mistaken, and I will >not teach that page. Attached is the page I will teach, consistently, and >if that becomes the "BUTLER" accent, then so be it. > > ><< Orientat.jpg >> | ||||||||
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