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Valerie Sutton Date: Tue Jan 5, 1999 5:20 pm Subject: Movement Diagonal Plane | ||||||||||||
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January 5, 1999 As you know, our new lesson online teaches movement on the diagonal plane. This includes movement that is "up and forward", "down and forward", "up and back" and "down and back": Writing Movement on the Diagonal Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/arrow011.html At the end of the lesson, I ask if people could send me suggestions for signs that use these "diagonal plane movement arrows". I received some excellent suggestions for signs from ASL. I hope people from other countries will also tell us about their signs that use the Diagonal Plane. Most of the time, these Diagonal Plane arrows are used in writing gesture or mime. There are not that many signs that use these arrows in ASL, for example. That is why I did not include them in our lessons until now. But I am now including them, because people writing Japanese Sign Language requested it, and I know that they are needed occasionally in all signed languages. So here are the suggestions I have received so far, for ASL signs using the Diagonal Plane arrows: 1. ahead (up-forward) 2. shovel (over the shoulder) 3. hell 4. damn 5. God 6. mountain 7. not (not the standard version, but with crossed flat hands palm down and moving away in opposite directions, down, forward, and out.) But then others sent me these signs.... king sash house King/Queen/Prince Princeton, Yale, Stanford PRINCESS, LORD never z pizza Although these signs use diagonal movement, they are side-to-side diagonal movement...parallel with the Wall Plane. They are not moving forward or back on a diagonal, so they are not parallel with the Diagonal Plane. But I do appreciate all of your suggestions and please keep sending them - it does help me to develop the diagrams for the new lesson. I have never taught these arrows in an official lesson before, so I need the examples for our new chapter. For those who have visited our web site and read the new lesson online, may I ask your opinion? Is the lesson clearly presented? Any suggestions for changes or improvements? Many thanks for your input! 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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