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From:  Stefan Woehrmann2
Date:  Mon Jan 28, 2002  4:55 pm
Subject:  Fw: Re: ZURICH: Fist and in-between planes questions


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Woehrmann2"
To:
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: Re: ZURICH: Fist and in-between planes questions


> Hi friends in Zurich and elsewhere,
>
> spelling questions always lead to several new aspects ...
>
> I could not open your gif but could find it on the archives list ;-)
> Hm I have got problems to read it -
>
> The start position is the C - hand and the endposition is the fist - but
> looking at the arrow - beginning and end it has to be interpreted
> differently??
>
> What do you think of one of my suggestions - a - f (attached gif) Well to
> write the "international version" would be an argument against writing -
> economy (Schreiboekonomie ) ;-)))
>
> But A - G are interesting variations and in time we will understand that
> although all of them seem to express the same movement - the one or other
is
> better to read .
>
> I am looking forward to your package ;-)))
>
> Stefan ;-)
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "GS-Media"
> To:
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:28 PM
> Subject: Re: ZURICH: Fist and in-between planes questions
>
>
> > Dear Stefan, Charles and Valerie
> >
> > Our goat question brought great helpful replies about how to notate
> > orientation of the closed fist - many thanks to all of you.
> > Carmen, Siv and I spend alot of time on all your answers today (Friday
> > is the only day we are all in the office together - hence the delay in
> > our answer.)
> >
> > The attached Gif shows the notation we settled on for goat. Note that
> > the variant of GOAT we are notating here is the one we decided to use as
> > the base form. It begins with a 'C' hand (not a fist) which then closes
> > into the fist Using the "C" means that the orientation of the hand is
> > clear. Siv has also convinced us that for the variant which begins with
> > a fist that I described in my previous email, we wouldn't need to
> > notate the arm because with the notated movement and resulting
> > handshape, there is only one orientation which the hand can have at the
> > beginning. Hope this reasoning is clear (and right?).
> >
> > The Zurich SignWriting-Team (Penny, Siv, Carmen)
>

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