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Valerie Sutton Date: Mon Oct 26, 1998 6:56 pm Subject: Re: SW Symbol Questions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Kathy Akehurst wrote: >So would differentiating between the simultaneous line and the smooth line >simply come from a knowledge of the sign itself? Or is one line slightly >longer than the other or something like that? 'Semantics', I know, but >still important when you're trying to teach this to others (and get it clear >yourself!). Thanks. > >Btw, just to let you know, our group (as homework for the SW Literacy >Project) has begun trying to do our grocery lists, etc. in SW. Good >practice and lots of fun, too! > >Kathy A. ___________________________ Hi Kathy - That is exciting about the grocery list - a good exercise in writing "food signs" :-) In regards to the Simultaneous Line versus the Smooth Line. If you look in your "Lessons In SignWriting Textbook", towards the back of the book there is a chapter called "Dynamics". This chapter shows the difference between writing fast movements, slow movements, tense movements and other details. When you look in that chapter you will notice that the Simultaneous Line is a very small curved line. It just "links" two movements together, showing that they are done at the same time. The Smooth Line is also a curved line, but it is much larger and most important - it "surrounds" the entire movement symbol. This shows that the entire movement is done "smoothly". The Smooth Line does not "link" two movements together - it is "surrounding" one movement with "smoothness". Gosh - using English to explain movement is not easy! I do not have these examples on the web, but it is explained in detail in the textbook. To read more about the textbook, go to: Textbook: Lessons In SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org/sw120.html Thanks for your questions - Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton at the DAC Deaf Action Committee for SW SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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