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Valerie Sutton Date: Mon Sep 17, 2001 2:38 pm Subject: Re: Vertical or Horizontal Writing? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cris from Brazil wrote: >I've found this example: Chinese can be writen in >vertical columns from right to left or horizontally from >left to right. Some shop signs and newspaper headlines >are written horizontally from left to right. SignWriting List September 17, 2001 Hello Cris! Wonderful to hear from you again. Charles Butler just told us about rioting and near civil war in Brazil. I am so sorry to hear this. Our news media in the US never told us about this, so I did not realize. I am praying for you. Regarding Chinese...Thank you for your diagram. Isn't Chinese a beautiful writing system? Yes, you are correct that it is written both vertically and horizontally. And that is the same with SignWriting. People write both vertically and horizontally, depending on the person and the software being used. But SignWriting is not Chinese. I must leave Chinese to others, as I know little about it. I do not think that Chinese uses spatial relationships, as SignWriting and Sign Languages do. Vertical SignWriting gives more information to the reader than horizontal SignWriting. In other words, vertical SignWriting is more accurate. I don't believe the accuracy changes in Chinese, based on the direction of writing? It will be fun to discuss the differences between vertical and horizontal SignWriting....I hope to do so in the next message... -- Val ;-) ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton ....visit the... SignWritingSite https://www.SignWriting.org Read & Write Sign Languages SignBankSite https://www.SignBank.org Sign Language Dictionaries DanceWritingSite https://www.DanceWriting.org Read & Write Dance MovementWritingSite https://www.MovementWriting.org Read & Write Movement & Gesture Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA phone: 858-456-0098....fax: 858-456-0020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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