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Valerie Sutton Date: Tue Mar 7, 2000 9:42 pm Subject: Re: curved movement - forward and down | |
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SignWriting List March 7, 2000 Thank you everyone, for all your messages, which clearly are too much for me to handle right now...I feel fortunate enough to answer one a day! ;-) But I can feel the misery people feel when they do not get an answer quickly...so let me explain that the Lessons In SignWriting Textbook has a limited symbol set - I was hoping back at the time it was written that we might be able to eliminate some of the symbols in SignWriting...of course all the symbols are always in the larger general Movement Writing system...but I thought maybe we could "hone down" (make smaller) the number of symbols in SignWriting. So the curved arrows that Stefan is talking about was one set of symbols that were taken out of the Lessons In SignWriting textbook for that reason. Now years later, I am finding that others in several different countries, feel those symbols are very important and are teaching them! So the symbols are needed and need to be put into the next version of the textbook. Steve and Dianne Parkhurst clearly demonstrated this by teaching these symbols themselves in their new textbooks in Spain, and at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, they are still using them since I introduced them in 1979. So you can see that we have a very LARGE system, and it is not an issue "do we have the symbols?"...we have them....the issue is "Which symbols can we do without?" and instead of trying to solve that, I think it will be better for us to have the entire system in one large reference book in the future, and we can leave it to future generations to decide what symbols are needed, and what symbols are not needed. Therefore, if you cannot find a symbol you need in the current version of the Lessons In SignWriting Textbook, then look here on the web: SIGNWRITING E-LESSONS DIRECTORY https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/less.html and you will find the curved arrows you are looking for: MOVEMENT Question 0022: Curved Arrows Front Wall Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/less011.html Question 0025: Curved Arrows Floor Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/less012.html Question 0028: Curved Arrows Side Wall Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/less013.html Question 0023: Circles Front Wall Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/less011.html Question 0026: Circles Floor Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/less012.html Question 0029: Circles Side Wall Plane https://www.SignWriting.org/lessons/less013.html The answer to your question, Stefan, is question number 0028 above. Those arrows are on the same key in SignWriter 4.3 as the straight arrows you chose, which are not curves but straight. So take a look at question 0028 in the E-Lessons and try to write the German sign for "WOLF" again - Best - Val ;-) |
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