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From:
Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Nov 5, 1998 7:22 pm Subject: Inbetween Contact & Surface Symbols | |
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November 5, 1998 Dear SignWriting List Members: Yesterday I received a technical question about writing "inbetween" contact. There are two ways to write "inbetween" in SignWriting. The most common way is with the "Inbetween Contact Symbol" which is described on this web page: Inbetween Contact Symbol https://www.SignWriting.org/cont003.html The Inbetween Contact Symbol implies that you are "contacting" between two points. There is, however, another more advanced set of symbols that are used in the general Movement Writing system. They are called "Surface Symbols". In that set of Surface Symbols, there are symbols that can also mean "inbetween" but those symbols do not contact - it is more like passing through between two surfaces without any contact occurring. You can see a listing on this web page: Surface Symbols https://www.SignWriting.org/cont007.html You will see that we have symbols for: On Top of a Surface Underneath a Surface To the Left Side of a Surface To the Right Side of a Surface Through two surfaces, one above and one below (no contact involved) Through two surfaces, one to the left and one to the right (no contact involved) And there are several more that are not on the web at the moment. Because these Surface Symbols have been used most in DanceWriting and Ice Skating, I never thought we needed them in SignWriting until recently. Recently I noticed that the Nicaraguans are using some of the Surface Symbols, and then later, I myself started using them for writing the details of classifiers in the advanced Goldilocks story. So one more time it seems that the general Movement Writing system has value .... All the best - 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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